Photos: Friends and Neighbors: The recession's unseen victims. 1  Related video Jobless mother struggles in severe poverty. 2  It is estimated that 6 of every 10 U.S. adults will be poor for one year or more by age 75. 3  Volunteers at the Friends & Neighbors Community Food Center in Coolville, OH. 4  Lisa Roberts, Director of Friends and Neighbors Food Pantry.
History. COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) was one of the earliest high-level programming languages. It was developed in 1959 by a group of computer professionals called the Conference on Data Systems Languages (CODASYL). Since 1959 it has undergone several modifications and improvements.he language continues to evolve today. Object-oriented COBOL is a subset of COBOL 97, which is the fourth edition in the continuing evolution of ANSI/ISO standard COBOL. COBOL 97 includes conventional improvements as well as object-oriented features.
Furthermore: 1  An acronym so familiar that no one remembers what it stands for is called an anacronym (For example, few people know that COBOL stands for Common Business Oriented Language.) 2  An acronym in which one of the letters stands for the actual word abbreviated therein is called a recursive acronym. (For example, VISA is said to stand for VISA International Service Association.) An acronym in which the short form was original and words made up to stand for it afterwards is called a backronym.