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.
So by these standards, for example, COBOL is an acronym because it's pronounced as a word but WHO (World Health Organization) is not an acronym because the letters in the abbreviation are pronounced individually.Note that abbreviations include shortened words like esp. for especially as well as shortened phrases.). Summing up: 1  An abbreviation is a shortening of a word or a phrase. 2  An acronym is an abbreviation that forms a word.