When enterprises in the western world grew in the 1950s, there was a need to automate numerous procedures for ease of operation, which led to the development of a high-level programming language for commercial data processing.
- COBOL was created by CODASYL in 1959. (Conference on Data Systems Language).
- COBOL-61, the following version, was published in 1961 with several changes.
- COBOL was accepted as a standard language for commercial usage by ANSI in 1968. (COBOL-68).
- COBOL-74 and COBOL-85 were developed when it was rewritten again in 1974 and 1985, respectively.
- In 2002, Object-Oriented COBOL was launched, allowing COBOL programmers to use encapsulated objects as part of their usual workflow.
- COBOL, in2014 includes features such as method overloading, dynamic capacity tables, and more.
- Importance of COBOL:
- The first widely used high-level programming language was COBOL. It’s an easy-to-understand English-like language. All of the instructions may be written in plain English.
- COBOL is also a self-documenting programming language.
- COBOL is capable of handling large amounts of data.
- COBOL is backwards compatible with earlier versions.
- COBOL offers good error messages, which makes bug resolution easier.
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