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

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

portal GnuCOBOL (formerly OpenCOBOL, and for a short time known as GNU Cobol) is a free implementation of the COBOL programming language. GnuCOBOL is a transcompiler...

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

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]...

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...

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...

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...

June 2009. "NTT Data Enterprise COBOL Brochure" (PDF). "Visual COBOL Brochure" (PDF). Retrieved 5 April 2017. "isCOBOL Evolve Datasheet" (PDF). Retrieved...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Commonly used high-level programming languages Ada, BASIC, C, C++, C#, COBOL, Fortran, PL/I, REXX, Java, Lisp, Pascal, Object Pascal Commonly used scripting...