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==Publications== | ==Publications== | ||
* | * [http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2008/P2687.pdf Status Report of DETAB-X (Decision Table, Experimental)] - 1963 - Of historical interest only | ||
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==Links== | ==Links== | ||
* [http://home.comcast.net/~wmklein/DOX/History.htm#_Toc273951528 Cobol history page] | |||
====USENET==== | ====USENET==== | ||
* [news:comp.lang.cobol comp.lang.cobol] - Still alive (mostly) - Go to the [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.lang.cobol Google groups version] if you are newsgroup challenged. | * [news:comp.lang.cobol comp.lang.cobol] - Still alive (mostly) - Go to the [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.lang.cobol Google groups version] if you are newsgroup challenged. | ||
* [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.cobol alt.cobol] - By now a dead duck, however during the 90´s a better information resource on COBOL than the traditional comp.lang.cobol group, and since google has most posting of the group archived and searchable, it is a great information resource for those working with older COBOL tools. | * [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.cobol alt.cobol] - By now a dead duck, however during the 90´s a better information resource on COBOL than the traditional comp.lang.cobol group, and since google has most posting of the group archived and searchable, it is a great information resource for those working with older COBOL tools. | ||
==Standards== | ==Standards== | ||
* | * '''COBOL-60''' first formal standard | ||
* '''COBOL-61''' published as "Cobol-1961: Report to Conference on Data Systems Languages (U.S. Department of Defence 1961). - This should be in the [[public domain]] as a DoD publication but for some reason is not. Not fully compatible with COBOL-60, but the basis for most COBOL compilers developed in the 1960's. | |||
* '''COBOL-61 EXTENDED''' An extension for COBOL-61 with syntax clarifications and so on, arithmetic extensions mean that the language is not 100% compatible with COBOL-61. First standard that offers the sort and report writer features, although the latter is optional. | |||
* '''COBOL-65''' | |||
[[Category:Programming Languages]] [[Category:COBOL]] | [[Category:Programming Languages]] [[Category:COBOL]] | ||
Revision as of 05:20, 30 December 2014
Business application language designed at the behest of the USA Department of Defence in the 1950's.
A list of OS/2 implementations of COBOL
- ACUCOBOL-85 - Commercial - Discontinued
- Cobol Workbench - Commercial - Discontinued
- IBM COBOL/2 - Commercial - Discontinued
- IBM VisualAge COBOL - Commercial - Discontinued
- Micro Focus Cobol/2 - Commercial - Discontinued
- Microsoft Cobol - Commercial - Discontinued
- IBM
- 1988: COBOL/2 1.0
- Micro Focus
- 1991: Micro Focus COBOL/2
- Microsoft
Libraries and bindings
A list of DOS implementations of COBOL
- ACUCOBOL-85 - Commercial - Discontinued
- Microsoft Cobol - Commercial - Discontinued
- IBM
- 1982: COBOL Compiler Version 1.0
- 1987: COBOL Compiler Version 2.0
- Micro Focus
- 1985: Professional COBOL
- Ryan-McFarland
- 1987: RM COBOL 85
A list of COBOL implementations that run under WinOS/2
- Microsoft Cobol - Commercial - Discontinued
A list of COBOL implementations that run under Java
A list of COBOL implementations in JavaScript
Publications
- Status Report of DETAB-X (Decision Table, Experimental) - 1963 - Of historical interest only
Local articles
Tutorials and other learning material
Links
USENET
- comp.lang.cobol - Still alive (mostly) - Go to the Google groups version if you are newsgroup challenged.
- alt.cobol - By now a dead duck, however during the 90´s a better information resource on COBOL than the traditional comp.lang.cobol group, and since google has most posting of the group archived and searchable, it is a great information resource for those working with older COBOL tools.
Standards
- COBOL-60 first formal standard
- COBOL-61 published as "Cobol-1961: Report to Conference on Data Systems Languages (U.S. Department of Defence 1961). - This should be in the public domain as a DoD publication but for some reason is not. Not fully compatible with COBOL-60, but the basis for most COBOL compilers developed in the 1960's.
- COBOL-61 EXTENDED An extension for COBOL-61 with syntax clarifications and so on, arithmetic extensions mean that the language is not 100% compatible with COBOL-61. First standard that offers the sort and report writer features, although the latter is optional.
- COBOL-65