Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

IBM shares dropped 13% on Feb. 23, on fears that Anthropic's Claude Code AI would accelerate COBOL modernization and undermine the mainframe business. AI can help translate legacy code, but it can't ...

International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) shares took a 13% nosedive on Feb. 23, their worst single-day drop in over 25 years. The culprit? Fears that Anthropic's Claude Code AI would make COBOL ...

If you have ever tried to debug optimized code, you probably realized that it can be a frustrating experience. Without optimizations, your debugger is a reliable assistant, precisely following every ...

Scripting languages like Python and JavaScript quickly gained popularity and pushed further toward human readability. They ...

The way we tell computers what to do, through programming languages, has changed a ton. We’re going to take a look at the ...