cobol
IPA: kˈoʊbɔɫ
Root Word: COBOL
noun
- 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.]
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Examples of "cobol" in Sentences
- Cobol and Fortran do have such a section.
- COBOL is the easiest to read of the bunch.
- The instructions read like a COBOL manual.
- This effort led to the development of COBOL.
- COBOL is the most proper language grammatically.
- Designed to be a COBOL developers dream machine.
- Cobol was very popular in the business community.
- It served as one of the forerunners to the COBOL language.
- It was an influence on the design of the COBOL programming language.
- In practice, often all data in a segment may map to a COBOL copybook.