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Flashback: The history of computing index; Sign up for the Computer Connection email service; For more computing stories; ... That language was Cobol, short for "common business-oriented language." And it's Cobol's dramatic success that's at the heart of the millennium bug.
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Feb 4, 2000 ... History of COBOL. • COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) was one of the earliest high-level programming languages. ...
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COBOL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
COBOL (pronounced /ˈkoʊbɒl/ ) is one of the oldest programming languages. Its name is an acronym for CO mmon B usiness- O riented L anguage, defining its primary domain in business, fin...
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Topic:COBOL ... They had two major objectives when creating COBOL. That is, they wanted portability and readability. With this, they meant that they wanted programs to run with minimum modification on different computer models/brands and easy readable language such as ordinary English sentences.
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History of programming languages I book contents ... SECTION: COBOL session table of contents ... Bemer, Robert W. (1971). A View of the History of COBOL. Honeywell Computer Journal. 5(3): 130--135.
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S. E. Sammet. PAPER: THE EARLY HISTORY OF COBOL. In R. L. Wexelblat, editor, History of Programming Languages, pages 199--243. Academic Press, New York, 1981. ... S. E. Sammet. PAPER: THE EARLY HISTORY OF COBOL. In R. L. Wexelblat, editor, History of Programming Languages, pages 199--243. Academic Press, New York, 1981.;
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As the name implies, COBOL was intended for business data processing. Also, It was intended that the language could be used by novice programmers and read by the managers. ... COBOL introduced the following concepts or features: 1. data description which really is machine independent 2. recursive data definitions 3.
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