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Revision as of 10:55, 18 March 2013
Common Business Oriented Language
COBOL is primarily found on the mainframe environments, and related to business 'batch' processing.
Example
Here's Hello World in COBOL.
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. HELLOWORLD.
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
DATA DIVISION.
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
DISPLAY 'HELLO WORLD! ' .
GOBACK.
Another variant, specifically for the RM/1 COBOL compiler:
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. HELLOWORLD.
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
CONFIGURATION SECTION.
SOURCE-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.
OBJECT-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.
DATA DIVISION.
FILE SECTION.
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
MAIN-LOGIC SECTION.
BEGIN.
DISPLAY " " LINE 1 POSITION 1 ERASE EOS.
DISPLAY "Hello world!" LINE 15 POSITION 10.
STOP RUN.
MAIN-LOGIC-EXIT.
EXIT.
