Acronym of COBOL


( Common Business Oriented Language ) A high-level language that for commercial applications, data processing is made. Each main program in the language has 4 episodes are:
(1) INDENTIFICATION DIVISION is the main application and output operation compile (translate) your introduction.
(2) ENVIRONMENT DIVISION, aspects of certain issues, processing data as to the physical characteristics of a particular computer dependent. specifies.
(3) DATA DIVISION data will be described that the application to language of the machine they as the input, accept and draped operations perform and the output they produce.
(4) PROCEDURE DIVISION, the steps described by the language machine execution. These steps use the sentences close to the English expression.
COBOL
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