COBOL programming language
COBOL, lenguaje para negocios
- Date
- 1959 · confidence high
- Place
- CODASYL Committee, Department of Defense, Washington D.C., United States
- Credited to
- The CODASYL Committee, with Grace Hopper, Jean Sammet and Bob Bemer
- People
- 👤 Grace Murray Hopper1906–1992👤 Jean E. Sammet1928–2017👤 Robert William Bemer1920–2004
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Language with almost English syntax designed to process business records and transactions portably across machines. It still runs much of the world's banking transactions.
What it led to
- The computerisation of banks, insurers and public administrations
- The technical debt of legacy systems and the Year 2000 problem
- The idea of a language standard imposed by the buyer (government)
Built on
- UNIVAC I commercial computer1951
- FORTRAN programming language1957
- Grace Hopper's FLOW-MATIC
Made possible
- central banking systems
- automated payroll processing