COBOL Programming Course #1 - Getting Started This project is a set of training materials and labs for a "Getting Started" level course on COBOL. Free and publicly available client tooling is used to ...

COBOL language The designers of COBOL broke with the terse syntax of other programming languages at the time (again, such as FORTRAN).

The COBOL generation Some smart people realized that a computer could do a lot more for more companies and decided that a better and easier programming language would make a huge difference. They even ...

COBOL Programming has been around since the 1980's. Learn one of the first programming languages with these online COBOL programming courses.

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The programming language COBOL , developed in 1959, is widely used in the financial, automotive, and medical industries because it uses a command syntax that is similar to natural language.

Ten years before man walked on the moon, a group of software engineers created the Common Business-Oriented Language—better know as Cobol—to standardize business computer programming. Not long ...

Yes, Cobol is dying -- just not yet. In that gap, some wily coders see opportunity for a career, or at least a secure job.