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The fourth division in a COBOL (sub)program is the PROCEDURE DIVISION, which contains the executable code. It is comprised of one or more paragraphs, each of which is identified by a programmer-supplied name. The rules governing whether a paragraph name is valid are the same as those governing data names.
1 A COBOL program is written in an English type language that cannot be understood by the machine, therefore it has to be translated using a compiler.2  A compiler translates the code all at once and produces a machine version of the program. This translation is done with a compiler that reads the high level COBOL language of the SOURCE PROGRAM and converts each high level COBOL instruction into one or more machine language instructions. 2  The OBJECT PROGRAM is the result.