COBOL
| Paradigm(s) | procedural, object-orientit |
|---|---|
| Appeared in | 1959 |
| Designed bi | Grace Hopper, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet |
| Stable release | COBOL 2002 (2002) |
| Typin discipline | strang, static |
| Major implementations | OpenCOBOL, Micro Focus International (e.g. the Eclipse-plug-in Micro Focus Net Express) |
| Dialects | HP3000 COBOL/II, COBOL/2, IBM OS/VS COBOL, IBM COBOL/II, IBM COBOL SAA, IBM Enterprise COBOL, IBM COBOL/400, IBM ILE COBOL, Unix COBOL X/Open, Micro Focus COBOL, Microsoft COBOL, Ryan McFarland RM/COBOL, Ryan McFarland RM/COBOL-85, DOSVS COBOL, UNIVAC COBOL, Realia COBOL, Fujitsu COBOL, ICL COBOL, ACUCOBOL-GT, isCOBOL, COBOL-IT, DEC COBOL-10, DEC VAX COBOL, Wang VS COBOL, Visual COBOL, Tandem (NonStop) COBOL85, Tandem (NonStop) SCOBOL (a COBOL74 variant for creating screens on text-based terminals) |
| Influenced bi | FLOW-MATIC, COMTRAN, FACT |
| Influenced | PL/I, CobolScript, ABAP |
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COBOL /ˈkoʊbɒl/ is ane o the auldest programmin leids, primarily designed bi Grace Hopper. Its name is an acronym for COmmon Business-Orientit Leid, definin its primary domain in business, finance, an admeenistrative seestems for companies an govrenments.
The COBOL 2002 standard includes support for object-orientit programmin an ither modren leid featurs.[1]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Oliveira, Rui (2006). The Power of Cobol. City: BookSurge Publishing. ISBN 0-620-34652-3.