Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A programming language developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, widely used for business applications. It has some syntactic features that resemble English.
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- proper noun A
programming language developed in the late 1950s especially forbusiness applications .
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- noun common business-oriented language
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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COBOL is a business programming language used almost exclusively on IBM mainframe computers.
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Not at all concerned for our stuff, and if all the stuff around the world written in COBOL went all to sh*te that night, the world would probably be better forit ....
The Volokh Conspiracy » If you like the BP spill, you’ll love cyberwar 2010
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I’m a mature programmer who first learned to program in COBOL 30 years ago (yes, that mature).
Learning To Program: How Does It Affect You Now? : KillerCodingNinjaBunny 2008
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The T-800’s visual systems (at least) appear to be programmed in COBOL and 6502 assembly (specifically Apple +2 assembly).
Roland Kickinger Filling in for Schwarzenegger in Terminator Salvation « FirstShowing.net 2008
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A big part of the exam was on programming in COBOL.
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Of course, there really were never any Last Days of COBOL, which is why there are so many ancient systems still humming away in the bellies of so many banks, insurance companies and governments.
d r i f t g l a s s 2010
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Generally speaking, these machines were programmed in a language called COBOL and used an operating system that was proprietary for that hardware.
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Common Business-Oriented Language - widely known as COBOL - has turned
Computerworld News 2009
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Grace Hopper – Navy Chick and a major mover behind COBOL
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I know COBOL programmers who still have workTODAY .....
The Volokh Conspiracy » If you like the BP spill, you’ll love cyberwar 2010
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