COBOL

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1. COBOL - Noun

2. COBOL - Proper noun

Meaning

common business-oriented language

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Aggregated data Data items in COBOL are declared hierarchically through the use of level-numbers which indicate if a data item is part of another. Source: Internet

A PL/I compiler was two to four times as large as comparable Fortran or COBOL compilers, and also that much slower—fortunately offset by gains in programmer productivity. Source: Internet

A reluctant short-term committee enacted a total cleanup and, by March 1963, it was reported that COBOL's syntax was as definable as ALGOL 's, although semantic ambiguities remained.sfn Early COBOL compilers were primitive and slow. Source: Internet

Another factor was pseudo-similarities to COBOL, Fortran, and ALGOL. Source: Internet

COBOL code is split into four divisions (identification, environment, data and procedure) containing a rigid hierarchy of sections, paragraphs and sentences. Source: Internet

An optional Decimal/Business instruction set was added to improve COBOL performance. Source: Internet

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