Cobol for Beginners (Computer Studies Series)

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COBOL is one of the oldest programming languages. Its name is an acronym for Common Business-Oriented Language, defining its primary domain in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments.

The COBOL specification was created by a committee of researchers from private industry, universities, and government during the second half of 1959. The specifications were to a great extent inspired by the FLOW-MATIC language invented by Grace Hopper - commonly referred to as "the mother of the COBOL language." The IBM COMTRAN language invented by Bob Bemer was also drawn upon, but the FACT language specification from Honeywell was not distributed to committee members until late in the process and had relatively little impact. FLOW-MATIC's status as the only language of the bunch to have actually been implemented made it particularly attractive to the committee.

ISBN : 715710370

Publisher : Holmes McDougall

Author : Christopher Danziger, Seonaid Danziger

Format : Soft cover; 128 pages

This exhibit has a reference ID of CH13210. Please quote this reference ID in any communication with the Centre for Computing History.
 
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