COBOL is the COmmon Business Oriented programming Language. COBOL is a procedural, imperative, compiled programming
language. As of the COBOL 2002 spec, Object Oriented features were added to the standard. The
contents include: Getting started with cobol, ACCEPT statement, ADD statement, ALLOCATE statement,
ALTER statement, CALL statement, CANCEL statement, COMMIT statement, COMPUTE
statement, CONTINUE statement, COPY directive, Data division, DELETE statement, DISPLAY
statement, DIVIDE statement, EVALUATE statement, EXIT statement, FREE statement, GENERATE
statement, GnuCOBOL installation with GNU or Linux.
This document describes the
syntax, semantics and usage of the COBOL programming language as implemented by
the current version of GNU COBOL, formerly known as OpenCOBOL.