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| What is Cobol? COBOL (COmmon Business Oriented Language) A high-level business programming language that has been the primary business application language on mainframes and minis. It is a compiled language and was one of the first high-level languages developed. Formally adopted in 1960, it stemmed from a language called Flowmatic in the mid 1950s. COBOL requires more writing than other languages, but winds up more readable as a result. For example, multiply hourly-rate by hours-worked giving gross-pay is self-explanatory. COBOL is structured into the following divisions: Division name Contains IDENTIFICATION Program identification. ENVIRONMENT Types of computers used. DATA Buffers, constants and work areas. PROCEDURE The processing (program logic). The following COBOL example converts a Fahrenheit number to Celsius. To keep the example simple, it performs the operation on the operator's terminal rather than a user terminal. IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. EXAMPLE. ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. CONFIGURATION SECTION. SOURCE-COMPUTER. IBM-370. OBJECT-COMPUTER. IBM-370. DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 77 FAHR PICTURE 999. 77 CENT PICTURE 999. PROCEDURE DIVISION. DISPLAY 'Enter Fahrenheit ' UPON CONSOLE. ACCEPT FAHR FROM CONSOLE. COMPUTE CENT = (FAHR- 32) * 5 / 9. DISPLAY 'Celsius is ' CENT UPON CONSOLE. GOBACK. Links supporting Cobol programming: http://www.eisiweb.com/ http://odin.bio.sunysb.edu/tedshieh/software/ http://www.software.ibm.com/ad/cobol/ http://www.infogoal.com/cbd/cbdhome.htm http://www.flexus.com/ http://www.y2ktimebomb.com/Economy/Predictions/cobol.htm http://www.cobol.com/ http://www.coboljobs.com/ http://home.swbell.net/mck9/cobol/cobol.html http://www.objectz.com/cobolreport/ http://www.ils-international.com/goldmine/posting/articles.htm http://www.free-ed.net/fr03/fr030208.htm http://www.scsite.com/cobol/ http://www.objectz.com/cobolworld/cw_shelby.htm http://www.sunworld.com/swol-04-1998/swol-04-cobolconversion.html http://www.flexus.com/compilers.html http://www.developer.com/directories/pages/dir.cobol.tls.wde.html Have A Diffucult Question That You Need Answered? Leave It On My Message Board For 90 days: http://www.InsideTheWeb.com/mbs.cgi/mb668156 Got A Question? My Chat Room To Meet Other People Who Like To Discuss Computer Topics: ~http://mercury.beseen.com/chat/rooms/p/7948 |
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