COBOL (/ˈkoʊbɒl, -bɔːl/; an acronym for "common business-oriented language") is a compiled English-like computer programming language designed for business...

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]...

open-source software portal GnuCOBOL (formerly known as OpenCOBOL, and briefly as GNU Cobol) is a free implementation of the COBOL programming language that...

IBM has offered the computer programming language COBOL on many platforms, starting with the IBM 1400 series and IBM 7000 series, continuing into the...

CobolScript is a programming language created by Matthew Dean and Charles Schereda of Deskware in 1999. The language was intended to provide web-enabled...

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...

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...

OpenCobolIDE: A simple COBOL IDE, retrieved August 27, 2022 "ColinDuquesnoy in Launchpad". Launchpad. Retrieved August 27, 2022. OpenCobolIDE/OpenCobolIDE...

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...

as a line that starts #include and is followed by a file specification. COBOL defines an include directive indicated by copy in order to include a copybook...

Claire Clarion Clean Clipper CLIPS CLIST Clojure CLU CMS-2 COBOL – ISO/IEC 1989 CobolScript – COBOL Scripting language Cobra CoffeeScript ColdFusion COMAL...

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...

March 2021. "NTT Data Enterprise COBOL Brochure" (PDF). "Visual COBOL Brochure" (PDF). Retrieved 5 April 2017. "isCOBOL Evolve Datasheet" (PDF). Retrieved...

design of COBOL, and is one of three predecessor languages credited in all COBOL manuals. Several elements of FACT were incorporated into COBOL: Defining...

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...

purely for developing a software product. The product was CIS COBOL, a standard-compliant COBOL implementation for microcomputers. In 1998, the company acquired...

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...

out in 1957, and many other languages were soon developed—in particular, COBOL aimed at commercial data processing, and Lisp for computer research. These...

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...

machine's COBOL compiler. They developed EXEC II because Univac's EXEC I operating system development was late. Because of this the COBOL compiler was...

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...

COBOL, Fortran and ALGOL programmers. The purpose was to develop a language that was comprehensive, easy to use, extendible, and would replace Cobol and...

later (from version 4 onwards) on NT/Windows Server. The core applications COBOL source code was interchangeable, but interfacing software, such as API gateways...

COBOL) 1957 – FORTRAN (first compiler) 1957 – COMTRAN (precursor to COBOL) 1958 – LISP 1958 – ALGOL 58 1959 – FACT (forerunner to COBOL) 1959 – COBOL...

Language (CODASYL) initiated development of COBOL. The COBOL design drew on A-0 and FLOW-MATIC. By the early 1960s COBOL was compiled on multiple architectures...

amendment of Conway's Law, stated as: If a group of N persons implements a COBOL compiler, there will be N−1 passes. Someone in the group has to be the manager...

programming languages. Business users were moving from Autocoders via COMTRAN to COBOL, while scientific users programmed in Fortran, ALGOL, GEORGE, and others...

Ada ALGOL Simula APL Assembly BASIC Visual Basic classic .NET C C++ C# COBOL Erlang Forth Fortran Go Haskell Java JavaScript Julia Kotlin Lisp Lua MATLAB...

Examples: C, C++, Java, Python, PHP, Perl, C#, BASIC, Pascal, Fortran, ALGOL, COBOL 3GLs are much more machine-independent (portable) and more programmer-friendly...

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...