A high-level computer programming language designed in the 1960s for business and administrative applications, once extremely common in corporate and government systems.
An acronym standing for 'Common Business-Oriented Language,' created by computer scientists including Grace Hopper to make programming more accessible to non-specialists.
COBOL programs written 60 years ago are STILL running in banks, insurance companies, and government agencies—nobody wants to rewrite them because they work perfectly and the cost to replace them would be astronomical.
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