| 释义 |
Cobol|ˈkəʊbəl|
Also COBOL.
[f. the initial letters of Common Business Oriented Language.]
A computer language designed for use in business operations.
1960(title) Cobol, report to Conference on Data Systems Languages, including initial specifications for common business oriented language (COBOL) for programming electronic digital computers (U.S. Defence Dept.). 1961Times (Computer Suppl.) 3 Oct. p. x/6 Ideally if a Cobol translator were written for every computer, a programme once written in Cobol could be translated and then used on any machine. 1963J. A. Saxon (title) COBOL: A Self-Instructional Programmed Manual. 1967Oxford Computer Explained 8 Writing programs in an assembly or machine language was not the way to work when Cobol was available. |