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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

computers. This effort led to the development of the programming language COBOL, the CODASYL Data Model, and other technical standards. CODASYL's members...

(for non-flexible rows), APL, C# (as unsafe-mode stack-allocated arrays), COBOL, Fortran 90, J, and Object Pascal (the language used in Delphi and Lazarus...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

(1993-10-12) VisualAge COBOL for OS/2 1.0 (1994-03-29) VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2 1.1 VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2 1.2 VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2, Version...

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

System and be accessed via COBOL or FORTRAN. Among the third-party tools was a package named Queo, which was more powerful than COBOL despite being less verbose...

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

"COBOL turns 50". Computerworld. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2013. Ed Airey (3 May 2012). "7 Myths of COBOL Debunked"...