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COBOL (Score:2)

by TorgoX (1933) <sburkeNO@SPAMcpan.org> on 2002.05.30 19:56 (#8979) Homepage Journal

So... what's COBOL like? I've tried skimming a book and tutorial or two on it, but somehow the syntax is too alien to me (not "Algol-like" as they used to say), and is sort of just washed over me. I just couldn't make sense of it.

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- What COBOL is like (Score:1)
  
  by Ovid (2709)
  
  COBOL was revolutionary for its time. If memory serves me correctly, it was an initiative, supported by the US military (though not a US military initiative, despite common misperception), to develop a common language. At the time different computers, if they had a high-level language, had a proprietary one. Several different computer manufacturers and government agencies collaborated on a two-step program (pun not intended) to create a common programming language for businesses. An interim language was

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