FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -COBOL was designed in 1959 by CODASYL and was partly based on the programming language FLOW-MATIC designed by Grace Hopper. It was created as part of a US Department of Defense effort to create a portable programming language for data processing.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first commercially available language was FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation), developed in 1956 (first manual appeared in 1956, but first developed in 1954) by a team led by John Backus at IBM.

Detailed explanation-3: -COBOL stands for Common Business Oriented Language. It is imperative, procedural, and object-oriented. A compiler is a computer program that takes other computer programs written in a high-level (source) language and coverts them into another program, machine code, which the computer can understand.

Detailed explanation-4: -Fifty years ago, each computer maker used its own programming languages to tell a computer what to do. In 1959, a group of programmers devised COBOL, a COmmon, Business-Oriented Language.

Detailed explanation-5: -The oldest programming language is Fortran, which was first commercially released in 1957. A group of programmers at IBM, under the direction of John Backus, first created the programming language.