cobol

IPA: kˈoʊbɔɫ

Root Word: COBOL

A programming language developed in the late 1950s especially for business applications.
Alternative letter-case form of COBOL [A programming language developed in the late 1950s especially for business applications.]

Examples of "cobol" in Sentences

+ 'Battlestar Galactica' [ '~ch. cite prolongation information'] + 'cobol'
This seems to be the history of Google: Google Search (1997) BASIC (1975). reply cobol guru
"Any IT professional worth anything would have to be questioning the rational of buying an antiquated cobol based system ..."
That said I would not want to drive it down from our home in Washington and back again each year we would be beat to death, especially in towns like Vallarta with the cobol stone streets.
I used a cobol programme on a Data General mini computer to directly control the output to a dot matrix printer and I designed some custom pre-printed stationary using real cut and paste to get the logos in the right places.
In fact you can even do your clients a big favor by bringing back their old cobol, Foxpro and dBase Programs orgainally written for them, and “scrapped” by the windows way of assimilating everyting in its path, and getting their businesses to run better now that they are running on what were once well designed custom programs that were not windows compliant, but run excelelentyy under Linux.