ALL meanings of cobol
COBOL
C c - abbreviation Technical meaning of COBOL COmmon Business Oriented Language 3
- noun cobol a high-level computer programming language designed for general commercial use 3
- noun cobol a computer language employing English words, used in business applications 3
- noun Definition of cobol in Technology (language, business) /koh'bol/ (COBOL) A programming language for simple computations on large amounts of data, designed by the CODASYL Committee in April 1960. COBOL's natural language style is intended to be largely self-documenting. It introduced the record structure. COBOL was probably the most widely used programming language during the 1960s and 1970s. Many of the major programs that required repair or replacement due to Year 2000 software rot issues were originally written in COBOL, and this was responsible for a short-lived increased demand for COBOL programmers. Even in 2002 though, new COBOL programs are still being written in some organisations and many old COBOL programs are still running in dinosaur shops. Major revisions in 1968 (ANS X3.23-1968), 1974 (ANS X3.23-1974) and 1985. 1
- noun cobol a programming language particularly suited for writing programs to process large files of data, using a vocabulary of common English words, phrases, and sentences. 1