2006-10-10 19:43:37 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
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COBOL
COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) was the first widely-used high-level programming language for business applications. Many payroll, accounting, and other business application programs written in COBOL over the past 35 years are still in use and it is possible that there are more existing lines of programming code in COBOL than in any other programming language. While the language has been updated over the years, it is generally perceived as out-of-date and COBOL programs are generally viewed as legacy applications.
COBOL was an effort to make a programming language that was like natural English, easy to write and easier to read the code after you'd written it. The earliest versions of the language, COBOL-60 and -61, evolved to the COBOL-85 standard sponsored by the Conference on Data Systems Languages (CODASYL).
In years immediately preceding the year 2000, many COBOL programs required change to accommodate the new century. Programmers with COBOL skills were in demand by major corporations and contractors. A number of companies have updated COBOL and sell development tools that combine COBOL programming with relational databases and the Internet.
COBOL evolved from pioneering work by Grace Hopper, who developed program compilers for the first large-scale digital computer, the Mark I.
2006-10-10 20:23:43 · answer #1 · answered by mallimalar_2000 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Its been years since I heard the word COBOL. Its short for Common Business Oriented Language. It is a programming language. Wasnt that the one they used to make those cards where holes have been punched out?
2006-10-11 02:59:57 · answer #2 · answered by QuiteNewHere 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Acronym for COmmon Business Oriented Language. Developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, COBOL is the second-oldest high-level programming language (FORTRAN is the oldest). It is particularly popular for business applications that run on large computers.
2006-10-11 02:47:11 · answer #3 · answered by midnightlydy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
COBOL is a third-generation programming language, and one of the oldest programming languages still in active use. Its name is an acronym, for COmmon Business Oriented Language, defining its primary domain in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments
2006-10-11 02:49:30 · answer #4 · answered by helpero_com 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
COBOL is a third-generation programming language, and one of the oldest programming languages still in active use. Its name is an acronym, for COmmon Business Oriented Language, defining its primary domain in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments.
2006-10-11 02:45:55 · answer #5 · answered by DonnyD 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
seems like everyone has done the searches and copy pasted the results.
Anyways, COBOL, my friend is an extinct database programming language, it has the same importance to coders waht Dinosaurus's have to human. Just my 2 bits.
2006-10-11 02:56:34 · answer #6 · answered by joamon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can learn more about COBOL using this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL
2006-10-11 02:47:42 · answer #7 · answered by S&H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I only know it is a platform for software / programming development.
Others include Fortran, C++, C, Java... etc..
2006-10-11 02:46:05 · answer #8 · answered by arevoir 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋