The COBOL Programming Language

 COBOL Prog. Language, 1959 Common Business Oriented Language
 COBOL COBOL
Name: COBOL
Created: 1959
By: Conference on Data Systems Languages
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Acronym: Common Business Oriented Language
Language type: block-structured
Extensions: .cbl .cob
Tutorial: http://www.csis.ul.ie/cobol/Course/COBOLIntro.htm
Note:   Despite the attempts at standardization, variations in COBOL implementations continue to exist. Most deviations or "extensions" are intended to take advantage of hardware or environmental features which were not defined in the standard definition.
 

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