History Of Cobol Programming Language:

COBOL is a very popular programming language which stands for Common Business Oriented Language. It is a high level programming language developed in the year 1959 by a group called the CODASYL committee. CODASYL is a brief for Conference on Data Systems Language. This committee included people from academic, user groups and computer manufacturers. The main objective of the committee was to develop a standard business oriented language and as a result of efforts of the committee the compilers became available in 1960. The American National Standard Institute (ANSI) is