COBOL
The English-like business language of 1959 that still runs banks, insurers and governments on mainframes. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- programming language
- Developer
- ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 4
- Created by
- Grace Hopper, Jean Sammet
- First release
- 1959
- License
- Open standard
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg4/
- Paradigms
- Procedural, Object-oriented
- Typing
- Static
- Type strength
- Strong
- Type inference
- No
- Memory management
- Manual
- Runs as
- Native code
- Main implementation
- IBM Enterprise COBOL, Rocket Visual COBOL, GnuCOBOL
- Concurrency
- None in the language, the transaction monitor (CICS) runs it
- Null safety
- No
- Package manager
- None
- Used for
- Back end
- Specification
- ISO/IEC 1989