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COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language)



A high-level language designed primarily for business use; it was first developed in 1959. COBOL has the advantage that it can be easily learned and understood by people without technical backgrounds; and that a program designed for one computer may be run on an another with minimal alteration.


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