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- proper noun A
programming language developed in the late 1950s especially forbusiness applications .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In 1971 Vincent returned to Pillsbury and programmed the GE 635 in Cobol.
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And yes, I know, spelling it "Cobol" is only forgivable because of all the effort the design must have taken.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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And yes, I know, spelling it "Cobol" is only forgivable because of all the effort the design must have taken.
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Couple our glorification/ignorance of war with the economic recession, and you have Nolan's ambiguous corporate stance in the form of Cobol Engineering.
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Whether you cut your teeth on Cobol or were raised on a steady diet of open source software, there's plenty you can learn about the folks on the other side of the age divide.
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With technology being introduced Monday, Micro Focus is offering assistance in migrating Cobol, CICS, and DB2 applications to Microsoft Windows via a managed code version of Micro Focus's mainframe and application modernization technology.
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Couple our glorification/ignorance of war with the economic recession, and you have Nolan's ambiguous corporate stance in the form of Cobol Engineering.
Derek Beres: Christoper Nolan's False Start Derek Beres 2010
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All it took was patching a few Cobol programs, although Bernie Ebbers sold it big -- to his eventual comeuppance.
To Mark the Beginning of the Last Year of a Decade in the 2000s 2009
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The shortage is already so acute that Japanese businesses had to deal with what they dubbed the 2007 Cobol Problem, when a large batch of older engineers who programmed in the Cobol computer language -- which many Japanese companies still use for their internal systems -- retired.
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The first was in information systems, where I wrote Cobol programs, designed Hewlett-Packard's cost accounting system, and managed a data center.
Karen Blue 2006
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