COBOL

COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) was designed for business processing. Though it seems dated, it still runs in banks, insurers and governments: a huge share of the world's financial transactions depends on it.

• Creado por Grace Hopper (CODASYL)
• Año 1959
• Paradigma: Imperative · compiled
• Extensiones: .cob, .cbl, .cpy

Para qué se usa

• Banking & finance
• Legacy systems
• Batch processing

A favor

• Stable and proven
• Ideal for business
• Handles massive data

En contra

• Very verbose syntax
• Outdated
• Few programmers

Ecosistema

• GnuCOBOL
• IBM Enterprise COBOL
• CICS
• JCL

Ejemplo

IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. HOLA.
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
    DISPLAY "¡Hola, mundo!".
    STOP RUN.