COBOL Birthday
It turns out that the other day, the COBOL language and its loyal programmers celebrated their anniversary. 50 years ago, a committee consisting of representatives of the six largest, at that time, computer manufacturers and three government agencies, chose the name COBOL for the new language, from Common Business-Oriented Language.
The language has experienced many of its creators, and even now it is used very widely. Fortunately, or unfortunately, in Russia it is almost unknown, but in the USA, judging by the statistics from Datamonitor, up to 5 million lines of code are still written in Cobol annually. The main scope of application - banking, telephone operators, government agencies.
The language has experienced many of its creators, and even now it is used very widely. Fortunately, or unfortunately, in Russia it is almost unknown, but in the USA, judging by the statistics from Datamonitor, up to 5 million lines of code are still written in Cobol annually. The main scope of application - banking, telephone operators, government agencies.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/70197/
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