COMMON BUSINESS ORIENTED LANGUAGE- COBOL IS AN EXETENSIVELY USED HLL...

1. COBOL: Common Business Oriented Language

- COBOL is an exetensively used HLL and since around 1960 several versions have

appeared

- The original intention was that COBOL should be capable of being compiled and

run on any model of computer

- COBOL is now employed for many business data processing applications, and so

a brief explaination of its structure follows

- A COBOL program consists of 4 divisions:

 Identifycation division this identifies the prog

 Enviroment division specifies the computer to be used for

compiling and processing

 Data division specifies the format and relates to these to the names

used in the procedure division

 Procedure division comprises the statements in the source program,

this is the main part of a COBOL program