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  2. Designed byHoward Bromberg, Norman Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, with indirect influence from Grace Hopper

    COBOL - Wikipedia

    • COBOL is a compiled English-like computer programming language designed for business use. It is an imperative, procedural, and, since 2002, object-oriented language. COBOL is primarily used in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments. COBOL is still widely used in applications deployed on mainframe com… See more

    History and specification

    In the late 1950s, computer users and manufacturers were becoming concerned about the rising cost of programming. A 1959 survey had found that in any data processing installation, the programming cost US$80… See more

    Features

    COBOL has an English-like syntax, which is used to describe nearly everything in a program. For example, a condition can be expressed as x IS GREATER THAN y or more concisely as x GREATER y or x > y. More comp… See more

    Reception

    In the 1970s, adoption of the structured programming paradigm was becoming increasingly widespread. Edsger Dijkstra, a preeminent computer scientist, wrote a letter to the editor of Communications of the ACM, … See more

     
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  1. COBOL was designed in 1959 by CODASYL and was partly based on the programming language FLOW-MATIC designed by Grace Hopper. It was created as part of a US Department of Defense effort to create a portable programming language for data processing.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL
    In 1959, COBOL was developed by CODASYL (Conference on Data Systems Language). The next version, COBOL-61, was released in 1961 with some revisions. In 1968, COBOL was approved by ANSI as a standard language for commercial use (COBOL-68). It was again revised in 1974 and 1985 to develop subsequent versions named COBOL-74 and COBOL-85 respectively.
    www.tutorialspoint.com/cobol/cobol_overview.htm
    COBOL was first designed in 1959 by CODASYL. In late 1962, IBM announced that COBOL is going to be their primary development language. COBOL edition 1965 introduces the facilities for handling mass storage files and tables In 1968, COBOL was recognized and approved by ANSI standard language for standard commercial use.
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    WEBWhen the Government Accountability Office reported in 2016 on legacy federal IT systems, of the 10 oldest systems it highlighted, three of them use COBOL, the better-known acronym for the programming language …

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  11. The early history of COBOL | History of programming …

    WEBThis paper discusses the early history of COBOL, starting with the May 1959 meeting in the Pentagon which established the Short Range Committee which defined the initial version of COBOL, and continuing …

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