COBOL stands for Common Business Oriented Language.The US Department of Defense, in a conference, formed CODASYL (Conference on Data Systems Language) to develop a language for business data processing needs which is now known as COBOL.
COBOL is used for writing application programs and we cannot use it to write system software. The applications like those in defense domain, insurance domain, etc. which require huge data processing make extensive use of COBOL.
This app covers all the major topics like
• Overview
• Environment Setup
• Program Structure
• Basic Syntax
• Data Types
• Basic Verbs
• Data Layout
• Conditional Statements
• Loop Statements
• String Handling
• Table Processing
• File Handling
• File Organization
• File Access Mode
• File Handling Verbs
• Subroutines
• Internal Sort
• Database Interface
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