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Common Business Oriented Language (COBOL)

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The first widely used high-level programming language for business applications. COBOL was an effort to make a programming language that was like natural English, easy to write, and easier tto read code. While COBOL has been updated over the years to combine COBOL programming with relational databases and the Internet, some factions in industry still perceive it as out-of-date
and COBOL programs are generally viewed as legacy applications.

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