Cobol still lives.
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 8:03 pm
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Fiftieth birthday of Cobol (aka comon business oriented language) that was allegedly invented by a lady named Commodore Grace Hopper. I say that just in case MS says it has a patent on Cobol too. Both Microfocus and Ibm still use Cobol even on web servers! There are still, even openings for Cobol programmers. That amazed me. Finding a system that uses Cobol might be like finding the Dead sea scrolls in terms of computer history. You can still run cobol on linux with Opencobol and a c compiler.
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Historical
000100* HELLO.COB OpenCOBOL FAQ example
000200 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
000300 PROGRAM-ID. hello.
000400 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
000500 DISPLAY "Hello World!".
000600 STOP RUN.
Modern
*> OpenCOBOL Hello World example
identification division.
program-id. hello.
procedure division.
display "Hello World!" end-display
goback.
Fiftieth birthday of Cobol (aka comon business oriented language) that was allegedly invented by a lady named Commodore Grace Hopper. I say that just in case MS says it has a patent on Cobol too. Both Microfocus and Ibm still use Cobol even on web servers! There are still, even openings for Cobol programmers. That amazed me. Finding a system that uses Cobol might be like finding the Dead sea scrolls in terms of computer history. You can still run cobol on linux with Opencobol and a c compiler.
