COBOL Tutorial
 

Index

  1. Program Structure.
  2. Data Type.
  3. Handling Table.
  4. Handling String.
  5. Processing Files.
  6. Sorting & Merging File.
  7. Report Writer.
  8. Handling Errors.
  9. Compiling & Debugging Program.
  10. Syntax Example.
  11. Interview Questions.

 

Introduction

 

COBOL is a high-level programming language first developed by the CODASYL Committee (Conference on Data Systems Languages) in 1960. Since then, responsibility for developing new COBOL standards has been assumed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).

Three ANSI standards for COBOL have been produced: in 1968, 1974 and 1985. A new COBOL standard introducing object-oriented programming to COBOL is due within the next few years.

The word COBOL is an acronym that stands for COmmon Business Oriented Language. As the expanded acronym indicates, COBOL is designed for developing business, typically file-oriented, applications. It is not designed for writing systems programs. For instance you would not develop an operating system or a compiler using COBOL.