COBOL (COmmon Business Oriented Language)
History.
In 1952, Grace Murray Hopper began a journey that would eventually lead to the language we know as COBOL.
In 1959, an industry-wide team was assembled to formulate a common business programming language. The Conference on Data System Languages (CODASYL) led by Joe Wegstein of National Bureau of Standards (now National Institute of Standards and Technology) developed a new language, and created the first standardized business computer programming language.
COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) was developed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Defense in cooperation with computer manufactures, users and universities. The initial specifications for COBOL were presented in a report of the executive committee of CODASYL committee in April of 1960. It was designed to be a business problem oriented, machine independent and capable of continuous change and development.
1968 – American National Standards Institute (ANSI) developed a standard form of the language known as American National Standard (ANSI) COBOL. This was an attempt to overcome the incompatibilities of the different versions of COBOL.
1974 – ANSI published a revised version of (ANSI) COBOL
1985 – ANSI published another revised version
Today — ISO and ANSI committees have completed the features of the latest revision of COBOL 2002.
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