Write some characteristics of COBOL as means of business language.

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Posted On: Feb 22, 2018

 

COBOL is a dominant programing language that has aided business users for a few decades. Following are the features of COBOL as a means of business language:

  • It can be compiled, executed and brought together on various machines.
  • It can handle large volumes of data and it is a business-oriented application.
  • It offers several debugging and testing tools for business users as it has several versions that make it easy to debug.
  • It is a structured language.

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