Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of common business oriented language (COBOL). Electronic digital computers are capable of performing many operations in seconds. The basic computer language is a machine code language, referred to as a low-level language, which is designed by the manufacturers for a particular computer. The aim of the group was a computer language that would be compatible between different computers and also one that could be written in “man-sensible” English using everyday words, which illustrated the function to be performed. COBOL is not patented and all the manufacturers have been encouraged to write COBOL compilers for their own computers. In its early days, COBOL was not a complete success; however, it was a step in the right direction. The present trends suggest that computer users are realizing that the major problems with commercial computer systems are systems problems and not programming problems.
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