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.file extension COB - COBOL programming language source
File extension COB description:
COBOL is a high-level programming language first developed by the CODASYL Committee (Conference on Data Systems Languages) in 1960. Since then, responsibility for developing new COBOL standards has been assumed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
Three ANSI standards for COBOL have been produced: in 1968, 1974 and 1985. A new COBOL standard introducing object-oriented programming to COBOL, is due within the next few years.
The word COBOL is an acronym that stands for COmmon Business Oriented Language. As the the expanded acronym indicates, COBOL is designed for developing business, typically file-oriented, applications. It is not designed for writing systems programs. For instance you would not develop an operating system or a compiler using COBOL.
Associated applications to file extension COB:
Company / developer:
Eclipse Foundation
COBOL IDE
The COBOL IDE Project - The COBOL IDE for Eclipse Subproject will build a fully functional COBOL Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the Eclipse platform. Our focus is COBOL application development on Windows/ Solaris/ Linux for deployment on each platform. We are interested in participation from others who would like to extend our work in other directions. e.g. wizards for developing applications that use particular library or database or messaging APIs, or extension to other languages.