COBOL (/ˈkoʊbɒl, -bɔːl/; an acronym for "common business-oriented language") is a compiled English-like computer programming language designed for business...
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BLIS/COBOL is a discontinued operating system that was written in COBOL. It is the only such system to gain reasonably wide acceptance.[citation needed]...
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IBM has offered the computer programming language COBOL on many platforms, starting with the IBM 1400 series and IBM 7000 series, continuing into the...
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CobolScript is a programming language created by Matthew Dean and Charles Schereda of Deskware in 1999. The language was intended to provide web-enabled...
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open-source software portal GnuCOBOL (formerly OpenCOBOL, and for a short time known as GNU Cobol) is a free implementation of the COBOL programming language that...
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COBOL Cowboys is a Gainesville, Texas software consulting company founded by Bill and Eileen Hinshaw in 2013. It was named after the Clint Eastwood movie...
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Grace Hopper (category COBOL)
and used this theory to develop the FLOW-MATIC programming language and COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today. She was also...
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OpenCobolIDE: A simple COBOL IDE, retrieved August 27, 2022 "ColinDuquesnoy in Launchpad". Launchpad. Retrieved August 27, 2022. OpenCobolIDE/OpenCobolIDE...
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List of compilers (redirect from List of COBOL compilers)
open-source COBOL contender emerges". The Register. Archived from the original on 2023-03-26. Lowden, James K. (13 November 2023). "gcc cobol status". gcc...
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March 2021. "NTT Data Enterprise COBOL Brochure" (PDF). "Visual COBOL Brochure" (PDF). Retrieved 5 April 2017. "isCOBOL Evolve Datasheet" (PDF). Retrieved...
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purely for developing a software product. The product was CIS COBOL, a standard-compliant COBOL implementation for microcomputers. In 1998, the company acquired...
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as an alternative to COBOL because Datapoint's 8-bit computers could not fit COBOL into their limited memory, and because COBOL did not at the time have...
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Signed overpunch (section COBOL)
digit. It is used in character data on IBM mainframes by languages such as COBOL, PL/I, and RPG. Its purpose is to save a character that would otherwise...
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design of COBOL, and is one of three predecessor languages credited in all COBOL manuals. Several elements of FACT were incorporated into COBOL: Defining...
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Claire Clarion Clean Clipper CLIPS CLIST Clojure CLU CMS-2 COBOL – ISO/IEC 1989 CobolScript – COBOL Scripting language Cobra CoffeeScript ColdFusion COMAL...
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who is considered to be one of the "fathers of COBOL". in 1979 he initiated the International ISO COBOL Working Group. From 1967 he was a member, and from...
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Variable-length array (section Cobol)
alloca() or similar functions) and C# (as unsafe-mode stack-allocated arrays), COBOL, Fortran 90, J, and Object Pascal (the language used in Delphi and Lazarus...
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User-defined function (section COBOL language)
1989:2014 Programming Language COBOL standard for details. As of May 2022, the IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 6.4 (IBM COBOL) compiler contains support for...
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Include directive (section COBOL)
The COBOL keyword for inclusion is COPY, and replacement is done using the REPLACING ... BY ... clause. An include directive has been present in COBOL since...
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out in 1957, and many other languages were soon developed—in particular, COBOL aimed at commercial data processing, and Lisp for computer research. These...
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later (from version 4 onwards) on NT/Windows Server. The core applications COBOL source code was interchangeable, but interfacing software, such as API gateways...
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statements in programs written in any number of languages such as C/C++, COBOL and Fortran. This differs from SQL-derived programming languages that don't...
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Imperative programming (section COBOL)
independent of each other, connected only by an intrinsic variable named $TEST. COBOL (1960) and BASIC (1964) were both attempts to make programming syntax look...
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CLIPPER 5.3 (DOS-based) CLEO for Leo computers Clojure (into JVM bytecode) COBOL Cobra Common Lisp Crystal Curl D (from a reengineering of C++) DASL→Java...
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COBOL) 1957 – FORTRAN (first compiler) 1957 – COMTRAN (precursor to COBOL) 1958 – LISP 1958 – ALGOL 58 1959 – FACT (forerunner to COBOL) 1959 – COBOL...
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CODASYL (category COBOL)
computers. This effort led to the development of the programming language COBOL, the CODASYL Data Model, and other technical standards. CODASYL's members...
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COMTRAN (section Contributions to COBOL)
FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslator). It served as one of the forerunners to the COBOL language. Developed by Bob Bemer, in 1957, the language was the first to...
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Examples: C, C++, Java, Python, PHP, Perl, C#, BASIC, Pascal, Fortran, ALGOL, COBOL 3GLs are much more machine-independent (portable) and more programmer-friendly...
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Computer program (section COBOL)
COBOL, Fortran and ALGOL programmers. The purpose was to develop a language that was comprehensive, easy to use, extendible, and would replace Cobol and...
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History Ada ALGOL APL ArkTS Assembly BASIC C C++ C# Classic Visual Basic COBOL Erlang Forth Fortran Go Haskell Java JavaScript Julia Kotlin Lisp Lua MATLAB...
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