COBOL
English
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editEtymology
editAcronym of common business-oriented language, perhaps coined by American computer scientist and aerospace engineer Bob Bemer.
Pronunciation
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editCOBOL
- A programming language developed in the late 1950s especially for business applications.
- 1973, Russell M. Armstrong, Modular Programming in COBOL[1], Wiley-Interscience:
- The problem in COBOL is that, while there exists a standard COBOL, ANS (American National Standard) COBOL, no computer manufacturer offers a COBOL compiler that is both full and pure ANS.