COBOL Definition & Meaning

COBOL

[ koh-bawl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Computers.

a programming language particularly suited for writing programs to process large files of data, using a vocabulary of common English words, phrases, and sentences.

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noun

a high-level computer programming language designed for general commercial use

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A programming language developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s and used especially for business applications. It is closer to English than many other high-level languages, making it easier to learn.

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Origin of COBOL¹

1955–60; co(mmon) b(usiness) - o(riented) l(anguage)

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Origin of COBOL¹

C20: co ( mmon ) b ( usiness ) o ( riented ) l ( anguage )

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The agency still uses technology dating back more than a half-century, including devices running a programming language, COBOL, that few coders still know.

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The system runs on COBOL, an antiquated programming language few coders still know.

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Some of its main computers still run on programming language that dates to the 1960s, called COBOL, the IRS has repeatedly told policymakers.

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The result, as one of my colleagues pointed out, is a keyboard that looks like it could sink a U-boat and only supports coding in COBOL.

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If you actually look at the technologies that banks run on, we’re talking about COBOL, which is a computer language from the ’70s.

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