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  1. COBOL - Wikipedia

    COBOL is primarily used in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments. COBOL is still widely used in applications deployed on mainframe computers, such as …

  2. COBOL Tutorial

    Common Business Oriented Language (COBOL) is one of the oldest high-level programming languages. It was developed in the late 1950s for business applications and administrative systems. COBOL is …

  3. What is COBOL? - IBM

    May 8, 2025 · Common business-oriented language (COBOL) is a high-level, English-like, compiled programming language developed specifically for business data processing needs.

  4. What is COBOL and Who Still Uses It? - CBT Nuggets

    Oct 23, 2024 · COBOL, or COmmon Business-Oriented Language, is a procedural programming language created in 1959 focused on readability, self-documentation, and ease of use. Procedural …

  5. COBOL - Basic Syntax - GeeksforGeeks

    Jul 23, 2025 · Cobol is a high-level language, which has its own compiler. The COBOL compiler translates the COBOL program into an object program, which is finally executed. A Syntax refers to …

  6. COBOL - IBM Developer

    May 17, 2026 · COBOL, or Common Business-Oriented Language, was designed specifically for business. COBOL is responsible for the efficient, reliable, secure, and unseen day-to-day operations …

  7. COBOL - Wikipedia

    COBOLは、科学技術計算向けの FORTRAN に次いで国際的な標準化が行われた、初期のプログラミング言語である。 過去のバージョンとの互換性を重視した国際標準規格にしたがって多くのプラッ …

  8. COBOL Is the Asbestos of Programming Languages

    Mar 16, 2026 · COBOL, short for Common Business-Oriented Language, is the most widely adopted computer language in history. Of the 300 billion lines of code that had been written by the year 2000, …

  9. The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore

    Dec 1, 2023 · An alarmingly large portion of the world's business and finance systems run on COBOL, and only a small community of programmers know it. IBM thinks Watson can help, but it's not …

  10. COBOL- The 66-year-old program that's running world’s biggest banks

    1 day ago · There has been a sudden rise in COBOL specialists among Banks and insurance firms, and they are ready to pay higher salaries s to attract and retain developers with COBOL skills.