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 first code and compiler was developed in 1952 for the Mark 1 computer at the University of Manchester and is considered to be the first compiled high-level programming language.low-Matic was a major influence in the design of COBOL, since only it and its direct descendent AIMACO were in actual use at the time. The language Fortran was developed at IBM in the mid 1950s, and became the first widely used high-level general purpose programming language.