ANSI COBOL

GPTKB entity

Statements (56)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:programming_language
gptkbp:basedOn gptkb:COBOL
gptkbp:characterSet gptkb:EBCDIC
ASCII
gptkbp:designedFor business data processing
gptkbp:domain gptkb:business
gptkb:public_administration
finance
gptkbp:fileExtension .cbl
.cob
gptkbp:hasFeature arithmetic operations
file handling
error handling
English-like syntax
fixed-format code
conditional statements
looping constructs
data division
debugging facilities
file organization options
intrinsic functions (in later versions)
modular programming (in later versions)
object-oriented programming (in later versions)
procedure division
record-oriented processing
report writer
screen handling (in some implementations)
sorting and merging
structured programming (in later versions)
table handling
gptkbp:hasVersion gptkb:COBOL_2002
gptkb:COBOL_2014
gptkb:COBOL-85
gptkb:COBOL-68
gptkb:COBOL-74
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label ANSI COBOL
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:COBOL_2002
gptkb:COBOL_2014
gptkb:COBOL-85
gptkb:COBOL-74
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:COMTRAN
gptkb:FLOW-MATIC
gptkbp:notableFor gptkb:Micro_Focus_COBOL
gptkb:OpenCOBOL
gptkb:IBM_COBOL
gptkbp:paradigm imperative
procedural
object-oriented (in later versions)
gptkbp:standardizedBy gptkb:ANSI
1968
gptkbp:successor gptkb:COBOL-85
gptkb:COBOL-74
gptkbp:usedFor legacy systems
mainframe computing
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Micro_Focus_COBOL
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5