Tutorial by Topics: cobol

COBOL is the COmmon Business Oriented programming Language. Even though it has become a pronounceable name, COBOL is still treated as an acronym by the standards committee, and COBOL is the preferred spelling by the ISO and INCITS standards bodies. Standard Specification The current specifica...

Computational clause is used to describe type of storage used in COBOL. It is used for 3 ways: COMP-1, COMP-2 and COMP-3. The most common form of computational is COMP-3. It frequently is just called "COMP" by programmers.