Computer Science / Unit 7 CS 0355 short lesson, about 20 seconds
COBOL, the Business Tongue
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The idea
COBOL — the Common Business-Oriented Language — was developed as a high-level language for business and standardized by the American National Standards Institute in 1968, purpose-built for business processes.
In practice
Inventory records and reorder lines read almost as office prose in its syntax.
Where people slip
Purpose-built means the fit is the feature.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
Unlocks
- Nothing yet depends on this.
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