COmmon Business-Oriented Language COBOL is a compiled English-like computer programming language designed for business use. It is an imperative, procedural, and, since 2002, object-oriented language. COBOL is primarily used in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments. COBOL is still widely used in applications deployed on mainframe computers, such as large-scale batch and transaction processing jobs. Many large financial institutions were developing new systems in the language as late as 2006, but most programming in COBOL today is purely to maintain existing applications. Programs are being moved to new platforms, rewritten in modern languages, or replaced with other software. COBOL statements have prose syntax such as MOVE x TO y, which was designed to be self-documenting and highly readable. However, it is verbose and uses over 300 reserved words compared to the succinct and mathematically inspired syntax of other languages. The COBOL code is ...
It has been a busy few weeks: Multiple outages at work A new roof on the house My other personal projects kicking into high gear So that means I have not gotten a lot done on the new home page. I think I have settled on a layout and theme for it that is related to the current placeholder page I have up. The first thing I will put up is some project summary pages for my Arduino hardware and software projects.
Well, Earthlink has stopped supporting the old Mindspring free web hosting so my old site is gone. Soon you will be able to find me at my new domain marshallgates.com . In the meantime, I have finished removing all the old, dead, defunct quiz results from my blog history. There were quizes hosted on geocities , that's how old some of them were. Now I just have to get in the habit of posting something every once in a while.
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