Cobol for the next millennium

Schricker, D.

Cobol 2002, the new Cobol standard, is expected to be finalized in approximately 18 months. Cobol 2002 builds on Cobol's first-class data handling capabilities and introduces object oriented features, environmental improvements, and many other modern constructs to the language. The improvements position Cobol as both a business and general-purpose programming language, capable of handling a wide variety of programming tasks.

Publication:

IEEE Software

Pub Date:

March 2000

DOI:

10.1109/52.841606

Bibcode:

2000ISoft..17b..48S

Keywords:

Computer languages;
Programming profession;
Standards organizations;
ISO standards;
ANSI standards;
Runtime;
Arithmetic;
Boolean functions;
Displays;
Data systems

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Cobol for the next millennium

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