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.
The DATA DIVISION of a COBOL (sub)program contains two sections, the FILE SECTION and the WORKING-STORGAGE SECTION. The latter is used to describe, via data description entries (level numbers, PICTURE clauses, etc.), the hierarchical structure of data items that exist during execution of the program.andom Access form of READ, WRITE, and REWRITE for INDEXED files. 1  Place desired value into the key field (in the file's data record). 2  Place desired contents into file's data record (or the data item specified in the FROM clause).