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| | COBOL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The SQL language, which follows COBOL's philosophy but is not used to write procedural code, has not faced as much criticism about its syntax. | | | A motivation of COBOL's design was to make programming easier by making the language as English-like as possible. | | | While this idea seems reasonable on its face, in practice the most difficult task in programming is reducing a complex computation to a sequence of simple steps, not specifying those steps with a particular language. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL
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| | COBOL History |
| | COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) was developed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Defense in cooperation with computer manufactures, users and universities. | | | The standard language specification has three levels low, middle and high so that standard COBOL can be implemented on computers of varying sizes. | | | It was designed to be a business problem oriented, machine independent and capable of continuous change and development. |
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http://www.legacyj.com/cobol/cobol_history.html
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| | The COBOL Programming Language |
| | COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) was one of the earliest high-level programming languages. | | | COBOL is ideally suited for the solution of business problems. | | | In 1974, ANSI published a revised version of (ANS) COBOL, containing a number of features that were not in the 1968 version. |
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http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis400/cobol/cobol.html
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| | Introduction to COBOL |
| | Most COBOL programs operate in a domain where the program complexity lies in the business rules that have to be encoded rather than in the sophistication of the data structures or algorithms required. | | | When a COBOL program is moved to a new machine, or has new peripheral devices attached, or is required to work in a different country; COBOL programmers know that the parts of the program that will have to be altered to accommodate these changes will be isolated in the Environment Division. | | | COBOL is a high-level programming language first developed by the CODASYL Committee (Conference on Data Systems Languages) in 1960. |
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http://www.csis.ul.ie/cobol/Course/COBOLIntro.htm
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| | NetCOBOL: Information: COBOL for Microsoft.NET Framework |
| | Because Fujitsu COBOL is targeting the.NET Framework, the language in which these libraries are implemented is immaterial. | | | The COBOL method "FRUITLIST-CLICK" was embedded in a class that inherited from classes in the.NET frameworks. | | | COBOL programs can use these features as if they were written in COBOL. |
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http://www.adtools.com/info/whitepaper/net.html
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| | TechiWarehouse - Cobol |
| | Cobol Access Plus - RLDT provide a fully transparent gateway between cobol applications and database technology for unix and windows systems. | | | Although disparaged by many programmers for being outdated, COBOL is still the most widely used programming language in the world. | | | Programs written in COBOL tend to be much longer than the same programs written in other languages. |
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http://www.techiwarehouse.com/Cobol
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| | Cobol |
| | PC COBOL IS IN BUSINESS What happens when a computer... | | | Much depends on whether Cobol vendors can add new capabilities to change the 3gl... | | | technology has changed in the years that have passed since Cobol 74 was implemented. |
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http://lithuanian.encyclopedia.st/Cobol
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| | COBOL - a Whatis.com definition - see also: Common Business Oriented Language |
| | COBOL was an effort to make a programming language that was like natural English, easy to write and easier to read the code after you'd written it. | | | COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) was the first widely-used high-level programming language for business applications. | | | Many payroll, accounting, and other business application programs written in COBOL over the past 35 years are still in use and it is possible that there are more existing lines of programming code in COBOL than in any other programming language. |
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http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,289893,sid9_gci213863,00.html
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| | COBOL |
| | In other words, legacy code is code that we don't understand, code that is hard to work with. | | | Companies must make legacy code developers more efficient in their efforts to maintain a massive collection of mainframe code, which often requires days of tedious analysis to invoke even the simplest changes and fixes. | | | The leader in the field is able to read, understand and transform source code in just under 90 programming languages, including Assembler, 8 distinct versions of COBOL, various versions of and derivatives of C and a host of 4GLs. |
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http://www.sysprog.net/cobol.html
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| | The COBOL Center |
| | The use of COBOL is more of a management issue than the need to develop in the prettiest language. | | | The COmmon Business Oriented Language - COBOL is the original language of Open Systems so it makes sense that today the language is a leader in Linux/Unix and the Open Systems movement. | | | Today, 90% of all COBOL is running on IBM mainframes so the book focuses on the COBOL skills needed in IBM mainframe shops. |
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http://www.infogoal.com/cbd/cbdhome.htm
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| | HP OpenVMS Systems - COBOL |
| | HP COBOL (formerly known as Compaq or DIGITAL (DEC and VAX) COBOL) is a high-level language for business data processing that operates on the OpenVMS (VAX, Alpha, and I64) and Tru64 UNIX (Alpha) platforms. | | | It is a high-performance, optimizing compiler environment that is based upon the 1985 ANSI COBOL Standard X3.23-1985 as modified by the X.23a-1989 amendment. | | | The HP extensions to COBOL include screen handling (ACCEPT/DISPLAY) at the source language level, file sharing, record locking, and more. |
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http://h71000.www7.hp.com/commercial/cobol
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| | COBOL Training Program COBOL Courses SYS-ED SYSED |
| | Search a COBOL table using a binary search. | | | The solutions to all workshop problems will be designed and coded using structured techniques, and will include a sequential file matching program with a subprogram and multi-level table handling. | | | This course presents COBOL coding techniques that facilitate top-down modular programming related to the definition, initialization/loading and manipulation of one dimensional tables and sequential file updating. |
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http://www.coboltrainingbysysed.us/COBTrngPrg.htm
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| | COBOL |
| | Siber Systems used BtYacc to develop a commercial COBOL parser, which is a part of CobolTransformer toolkit. | | | A formal grammar for IBM COBOL derived from the IBM manual COBOL Language Reference (SC26-9046). | | | A formal grammar for VS COBOL II derived from the IBM manual VS COBOL II Reference Summary (SX26-3721). |
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http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/tek1/cobol.htm
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| | Product Page |
| | COBOL programs can be integrated seamlessly with other languages: inheriting from classes created in other languages, invoking and being invoked by methods written in other languages. | | | Adapts OO COBOL syntax, and supports.NET-specific extensions, so that COBOL programs can be written to take full advantage of the.NET Framework classes. | | | OO COBOL syntax, and run-time support, are built into Fujitsu NetCOBOL for.NET and are tailored specifically for the.NET environment. |
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http://www.netcobol.com/products/windows/netcobol.html
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| | ITworld.com - I have seen the future, and it is COBOL? |
| | COBOL's wordiness is legendary: they say it has more lines of source code than generated machine instructions. | | | Keep in mind that when COBOL was designed, its programmers weren't trying to write the book on the elements of obscurity for generations to come. | | | Irrespective of the success of COBOL on Linux, we should try to interest these programmers in Linux as a free operating system to use, modify, and share. |
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http://www.itworld.com/AppDev/713/LWD991108cobol
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| | Cetus Links: 16604 Links on Objects and Components / OO COBOL |
| | There is, however, a very important difference: While Structured Programming was meant to be an alternative to traditional, "spaghetti-oriented" programming, believed to be simply a better programming style, OOP will not replace conventional programming, but will be used just for specific programming tasks, for which it is better suited. | | | "COBOL is an acronym for Common Business Oriented Language and was the first language developed as a tool for business applications in the sixties. | | | Traditional COBOL programming will not go away, but will be complemented by new language features for defining classes and objects." (Fujitsu Software) |
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http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_cobol.html
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| | Cobol |
| | In COBOL II the 88 levels can be set rather than moving their associated values to the related data item. | | | An external sort is not COBOL; it is performed through JCL and PGM=SORT. | | | 3/28/00 Dave Herrmann: 'I was reading your FAQ on Cobol, as an fyi Comp is defined as the fastest/preferred numeric data type for the machine it runs on. |
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http://members.aol.com/cronid/cobol.htm
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| | COBOL Training COBOL Courses COBOL Training Program SYS-ED SYSED |
| | In our courses, students learn by doing; one-third of their class time will be spent coding and debugging programs on our OS/390 and z/OS systems. | | | The COBOL programmers you need may be already be working for you! | | | Yes, since 1980, SYS-ED has taught COBOL programming and we offer the most comprehensive COBOL courses and integrated programs anywhere. |
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http://www.coboltrainingbysysed.us
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| | IBM Software - IBM COBOL Family - Family Overview |
| | IBM COBOL for VSE/ESA extends IBM strategic COBOL technology in the VSE/ESA environment. | | | IBM COBOL for OS/390® and VM Version 2 Release 2 gives you the COBOL function you need on the S/390 platform -- strengthening your program development efforts and optimizing existing applications. | | | In today's complex world of technology, enterprises are faced with the task of finding efficient and consistent means for developing quality applications with multiple languages, while maintaining their existing inventory of legacy code. |
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http://www-3.ibm.com/software/ad/cobol
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| | COBOL |
| | Generating COBOL code out of textual decision trees... | | | "COBOL is a very bad business programming language - but all the others are so much worse." -- Robert Glass, CACM Vol 40 No. 9 | | | Interactive COBOL - Downloadable for many systems including Linux |
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http://cbbrowne.com/info/cobol.html
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| | theKompany.com :: Products : KOBOL : Kobol sub-products: |
| | The result of this is that there are no expensive run-time costs associated with KOBOL as there are with most commercial COBOL environments. | | | KOBOL is -- we hope -- an obvious play on words for COBOL, which stands for COmmon Business Oriented Language. | | | With KOBOL you can make the move to new platforms like Linux and Windows (for you mainframe types) and preserve your hard earned knowledge of business systems and how they work. |
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http://www.thekompany.com/products/kobol
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| | BYTE.com |
| | COBOL is created by the Conference on Data Systems and Languages (CODASYL). | | | The specific ation does not describe how data will be input or output; that is left to the individual implementations. | | | My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it is theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++. |
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http://www.byte.com/art/9509/sec7/art19.htm
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| | The Flexus COBOL Tools Page |
| | COBOL FormPrint supports modern Windows Print Manager printing and can even print across a TCP/IP network when combined with our Thin Client product. | | | Flexus offers add-on tools which you can use to implement the kinds of features which your end users are demanding today. | | | Flexus is always seeking to add additional distribution agents for our 100% COBOL oriented programming tools! |
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http://www.flexus.com
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| | COBOLPortal |
| | The paper goes on to explain why COBOL is such a perfect fit with the other programming languages that support the.NET Framework and provides examples of how the features provided by Net Express with.NET and the.NET Framework can be put to use in your own applications. | | | This research reports the results from a set of two surveys conducted at the end of 2002 from business, government, and non-profit employers who may be using Cobol applications in their information systems and from academic institutions with undergraduate CIS/IS programs that may offer Cobol instruction in their curriculum. | | | This book is about legacy information architectures and the daunting challenges they pose, along with strategies for tackling these problems. |
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http://www.cobolportal.com
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| | Micro Focus - Micro Focus and The legacy of COBOL |
| | COBOL is being re-energized as an important component of moving businesses to the Web seamlessly and efficiently. | | | Micro Focus Consulting understands the value of your legacy COBOL applications. | | | Micro Focus Consulting leads the industry with application development experience in both mainframe and distributed computing environments - more |
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http://www.microfocus.com/cobol.asp
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| | Free COBOL Compilers and Interpreters (thefreecountry.com) |
| | Just because a program, book or service is listed here or has a good review does not mean that I endorse or approve of the program or of any of its contents. | | | The interpreter supports a subset of the ANSI85 COBOL syntax and has some extensions. | | | Latest news: it looks like the project may no longer be active. |
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http://www.thefreecountry.com/compilers/cobol.shtml
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| | Pointers in COBOL |
| | Since newer versions of COBOL provide a way to dynamically allocate memory (without resorting to Assembler), pointers may become more common in the COBOL world. | | | When you are satisfied that your design is correct, translate it mechanically into COBOL, concentrating on syntax rather than design. | | | For example, draw boxes and arrows to represent your data structures. |
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http://home.swbell.net/mck9/cobol/tech/cobolptr.html
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| | Kasten COBOL Page: Coding Style and Techniques |
| | Here's what I've learned so far about IBM's implementation of object-oriented COBOL. | | | With a reasonably modern dialect of COBOL, and a little ingenuity, you can do almost anything that a C programmer can do: | | | I've never seen them fail on a non-trivial project. |
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http://home.swbell.net/mck9/cobol/cobol.html
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| | COBOL Curriculum |
| | The combination of lectures and lab work will demonstrate COBOL intrinsic functions, IBM callable services, and changes to the run-time environment. | | | This course combines lectures and lab work to further the understanding of complex table handling and the use of external subroutines. | | | This course uses lectures and handouts to introduce general programming concepts and provide an in-depth look at the process for design and development of COBOL application programs. |
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http://www.bpgtraining.com/cobol.html
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| | COBOL Standards |
| | The type 2 Technical Report "Object Finalization for Programming Language COBOL" was approved in May 2003 and is available from ISO. | | | One adds "Native COBOL Syntax for XML Support" and the other adds "Collection Classes". | | | The next COBOL standard is well on its way. |
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http://www.cobolstandards.com
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| | O'Reilly -- The State of Java |
| | Rebelling is plausible (BASIC programmers, COBOL programmers, and Lisp programmers are all rebels but in very different ways and they've rebelled for different reasons - stupidity, traditionalism/pragmaticism, and idealism/pragmaticism respectively). | | | Running a business developing internet based applications we been through PHP/Perl/CGI and eventually standardised on Java (Server side). | | | And even IF Java is going the way of CoBOL, that's not such a bad thing. |
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http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/editors/java_1004.html
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| | NetCOBOL Main Page |
| | The City of West Covina Service Group has successfully moved the first of many applications to Microsoft’s.NET platform putting them in a leading edge environment that promises to speed current and future developments. | | | Early Adopters Confirm Agility of Fujitsu Software's NeoKicks™ For Migration Of CICS COBOL From Mainframe To.NET | | | Fujitsu Software to Deliver 64-Bit COBOL for Microsoft.NET Framework |
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http://www.adtools.com
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| | Liant Software Corporation: The RM/COBOL Product Set |
| | With RM/Panels, developers can create interfaces that are portable to any environment supported by RM/COBOL, both character-based and GUI. | | | No need to rewrite your server programs to be event driven. | | | RM/COBOL developers can now use their choice of industry-standard tools such as Microsoft's Visual Basic and Borland's Delphi to develop a true Windows client user interface for Windows or UNIX-based COBOL applications. |
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http://www.liant.com/products/rmcobol
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| | ILS International, COBOL Gold Mine Home Page |
| | can help you reuse your existing experienced programming resources and COBOL applications you have fine-tuned for years giving you satisfaction and full control and how to convert them with minimum effort to use Windows 95/98/NT/2000 and/or UNIX Client/Server and Internet technologies. | | | We have assembled and put all these nuggets in the same computer box! | | | directories is how to access or set system variables from a COBOL program. |
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http://www.ils-international.com/goldmine/cgmhome.htm
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| | Hanoi: COBOL |
| | There certainly are many more readily available COBOL compilers than there were in 1995, when I first programmed in COBOL as part of an arcane course. | | | I found the Open COBOL Compiler particularly useful for developing this program. | | | The Towers of Hanoi as a COBOL program. |
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http://www.kernelthread.com/hanoi/html/cob.html
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| | COBOL: Micro Focus Server Express 4.0 and Application Server for Server Express 4.0 |
| | Micro Focus Server Express[tm] and Application Server are high performance environments for developing and deploying e-business and distributed COBOL applications on high-performance UNIX servers. | | | Server Express helps to dramatically reduce deployment costs and provides increased service levels through state-of-the-art capabilities like AppTrack and FaultFinder. | | | Server Express accelerates enterprise COBOL application performance to the next level, providing the fastest ever Micro Focus COBOL product for UNIX. |
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http://www.sun.com/software/products/cobol/index.xml
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| | COBOL programming - tutorials, lectures, exercises, examples |
| | COBOL programming site with a comprehensive set of COBOL tutorials making a full COBOL course as well as COBOL lecture notes, COBOL programming exercises with sample solutions, COBOL programming exam specifications with model answers, COBOL project specifications, and over 50 example COBOL programs. | | | This All Things COBOL site is owned by Michael Coughlan | | | Add My Home Page to the All Things COBOL Webring |
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http://www.csis.ul.ie/COBOL
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| | Envyr Corporation: Interactive COBOL |
| | ISQL provides many of the features of embedded SQL in an integrated fashion that avoids the added complexity of pre-processors, call-level interfaces, or foreign (non-COBOL like) syntax. | | | ISQL provides a simple way to use popular relational databases directly from within COBOL programs. | | | The most significant new feature to the ICOBOL language is one that we call Integrated SQL, or ISQL for short. |
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http://www.icobol.com
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| | comp.lang.cobol - dBforums |
| | REXx macro to browse VSam file using DATA-XPERT | | | How do you code modulus 11 in Cobol | | | Custom C file handler linked and MF cobol Server Express |
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http://www.dbforums.com/f91
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| | COBOL |
| | Selected Writings on Computing: A Personal Perspective) See also | | | One popular one is Edsger W. Dijkstra's famous observation that “The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. |
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http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/C/COBOL.html
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| | Quiz: Time for Cobol in Chunks? |
| | Note: This quiz requires at least Microsoft IE 4.0, Netscape 6.0, or other compatible Web browser. | | | But modern methods of writing Cobol programs in reusable chunks may extend its usage to a new base of object-oriented developers. | | | Is this new-age version of Cobol of practical use to you? |
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http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,1589748,00.asp
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