Basic structure COBOL

Hi.. Can somebody tell me the basic structure of the the COBOL
language.. since i need that for presentation.

thanx in advance... Tushar

jogtushar@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi.. Can somebody tell me the basic structure of the the COBOL
> language.. since i need that for presentation.
>
> thanx in advance... Tushar
>
Words and names are constructed into sentences, organized into paragraphs.

Lots of good books about.  I'd suggest reading one, maybe, for bonus
marks, even two.

Donald

<jogtushar@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi.. Can somebody tell me the basic structure of the the COBOL
> language.. since i need that for presentation.
>
> thanx in advance... Tushar
>

Basic structure eh?.... Hmmm ... for presentation....

COBOL is constructed by stringing together characters in the ASCII or EBCDIC
character set.

There are rules about WHICH characters are allowed, how they can be
combined, and whereabouts they can go. There are also rules about the order
in which they must appear together; for example, the string 'MEOV' could be
acceptable in some places in the program, but would need re-arranging into
'MOVE' in other places in the program.

Failure to obey the rules can result in bad construction, and bad
construction may cause the program to fail and/or other programmers to rain
down curses and abomination upon your name.

On the whole, COBOL is a highly complex and powerful commercial language
that is best left to people with at least some basic computer skills (like,
how to use a search engine...)

HTH,

Pete.

In article <1180411515.956717.64220@p47g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>,
<jogtushar@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi.. Can somebody tell me the basic structure of the the COBOL
>language.. since i need that for presentation.

The basic structure of COBOL is that it isEnglish-like, or so some have
said.

The appropriateness of other details might depends on your situation.
What are you presenting, and to whom?

DD

jogtushar@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi.. Can somebody tell me the basic structure of the the COBOL
> language.. since i need that for presentation.
>
> thanx in advance... Tushar

Sure. The basic structure is:

Get
Mull
Put

HeyBub wrote:
> jogtushar@gmail.com wrote: 
>
> Sure. The basic structure is:
>
>   Get
>   Mull
>   Put
>
>
I like that.   Add a dictionary, and you have an entire language.

Donald

HeyBub wrote:
>
>   Get
>   Mull
>   Put

Actually I think that's PL1.

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> HeyBub wrote: 
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> Actually I think that's PL1.
>
>

LOL! Nice one, Robin... :-)

It almost is...

Pete.

Pete Dashwood wrote:
> "Robin Lee" <robinlee@news.com> wrote in message
>  news:XaCdnd91JbmVO8HbnZ2dnUVZ_judnZ2d@gi
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> LOL! Nice one, Robin... :-)
>
> It almost is...

Of course, it is PL/I [not PL1], but in a thread like this, I guess
close counts...  [No comment on the rest.]
Carl

donald tees wrote:
> HeyBub wrote: 
> I like that.   Add a dictionary, and you have an entire language.
>

Great. Take perfectly good code and add "features." Next thing you know,
you'll have Vista.