The most widely adopted computer language in history, COBOL is now causing a host of problems. It's also dangerously difficult to remove.

Shrinking enrollment is forcing North Carolina school boards to consider closing schools, even in affluent and growing areas like Chapel Hill-Carrboro.

Those who stay into the forbidden realm of font rendering quickly learn how convoluted and arcane it can be – LaTeX is a fully Turing-complete programming language, Unicode has over eighty ...