COBOL

  • It was one of the first computer programming languages. The name COBOL stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language. COBOL was created because people wanted a language they could use to describe the problems in a way that is independent of the hardware used.
  • In recent years, COBOL has been extended to allow object-oriented programming, user-defined functions, and user-defined data types.
  • As an example, ADD YEARS TO AGE is a valid expression. There are several different versions of COBOL. The newest is from 2002. In general, versions of the language before 1985 are not compatible with the newer versions, from 1985 and later.
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