Ritesh Kumar

• Dec 20th, 2006

 

COBOL is desigend specifically for commercial applications , such as payroll and inventory,that typically operate on a large volume of data.

> older mainframe -based "leagcy" system will need to be maintained by mainframe programmers who knpw cobol.

ashish_setia

 Profile Answers by ashish_setia 

• Dec 20th, 2006

 

hey,

actually at that time i mean in late 60's or early 70's , COBOL was the most popular langugae available, thats why main frame computers use this language,

also this is a very simple english like language, having no complicated things like pointers etc it was meant for simple proccesing like add, mul ,divide, tables etc. alll that things that are required for bussiness applicaton that is why it  is called as bussiness oreinted language.

regards

ashish setia