the future of COBOL
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 possible that there are more existing lines of programming code in COBOL than in any other programming language has been update over the years.Today we already stepped in internet Age, most of old style business also have been combined with intent to create the e-business, so we suppose COBOL is not useful anymore but before we made a conclusion we'd better know how's COBOL worked, and how's COBOL will work in future then we could make decision. COBOL was an effort to make a programming language that was like natural English, easy to write and easier to read the coed after you'd written it, and COBOL is one of the oldest, and arguably the most successful and popular of all programming languages. The earliest version of the language, COBOL-60 and -61, evolved to the COBOL-85 standard sponsored by the Conference on Data Systems Language (CODASYL). COBOL has been declared dead so many times since April 1968 till now, but COBOL lives on. Nevertheless, the somber pronou
Since the year 2000 (Y2K) problem is common in many business applications and most of these are written in COBOL, programmers with COBOL skills have become sought after by major corporations and contractors. A number of companies have updated COBOL and sell development tools to meet the requirements about COBOL applications using in e-business. Several computer companies already developed some economical, practical product could combine with COBOL to working in e-business. At August 14,1995 Micro Focus announced Visual Object COBOLtm version 1.0 for windowc 95, in 1998 CASEGN system Ltd announces that COBOL for windows is available free-of-charge to promote the use of COBOL as a powerful windows95/NT graphical development tool, now IBM introduced VisualAge COBOL 2000 enterprise for OS/2 and Windows NT, and other COBOL supporters like CORBRA, MERANT, etc. those supporter's software are enhanced following features: a working station development environment that enables you to seamlessly develop, modify, reengineer, maintain, modernize, and port host applications right at your desktop.
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CORBRA MERANT, Oriented Language, Etc COBOL, Basic Java, Object COBOLtm, CODASYL COBOL, Java XML, COBOL Oriented, PC-based Internet-aware, VisualAge COBOL, written cobol, programming language, how's cobol, business applications, outside world, common business,
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