COBOL is a business programming language used almost exclusively on IBM mainframe computers.    From Wordnik.com.  [“For the past five months, Amanda’s Medicaid payments have been delayed because of problems at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services” « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy] Reference

A big part of the exam was on programming in COBOL.    From Wordnik.com.  [“For the past five months, Amanda’s Medicaid payments have been delayed because of problems at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services” « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy] Reference

Common Business-Oriented Language - widely known as COBOL - has turned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Computerworld News] Reference

I’m a mature programmer who first learned to program in COBOL 30 years ago (yes, that mature).    From Wordnik.com.  [Learning To Program: How Does It Affect You Now? : KillerCodingNinjaBunny] Reference

The T-800’s visual systems (at least) appear to be programmed in COBOL and 6502 assembly (specifically Apple +2 assembly).    From Wordnik.com.  [Roland Kickinger Filling in for Schwarzenegger in Terminator Salvation « FirstShowing.net] Reference

I know COBOL programmers who still have workTODAY.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » If you like the BP spill, you’ll love cyberwar] Reference

I know COBOL programmers who still have workTODAY.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » If you like the BP spill, you’ll love cyberwar] Reference

Is it possible to create a beautiful COBOL application?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruby Matters: Language Beauty Part 2] Reference

Don't forget to mention that COBOL is a DSL, my friend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speaking at TSS Barcelona Next Week] Reference

The COBOL version crashed on ev'ry system it went through.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bug Came Back] Reference

Christopher Cooke: no, the Mayans wrote in Logo, not COBOL.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Unnecessary Falsehoods:] Reference

Steve was one of the early computer geeks, programming COBOL.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Emerald Triangle]

She focused on compiler work; COBOL being the eventual output.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-22] Reference

You can have my COBOL when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Moolah for Mainframes] Reference

I studied COBOL and FORTRAN and found they didn't look much fun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snell-Pym » What I want from a programming language] Reference

Yes, I know, COBOL was worse for this, and almost anything else.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Clive Crook (at The Atlantic) on “ClimateGate”] Reference

The enterprise is left with nobody that knows how to write COBOL.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Incite comes Insight...: Design for Maintenance] Reference

After Census, I was doing work for NOAA, and it was a COBOL shop.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Clive Crook (at The Atlantic) on “ClimateGate”] Reference

COBOL: This language has had limited availability for the AppleII.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Apple II History, by Steven Weyhrich : Languages, Continued] Reference

I had no idea who invented COBOL, BASIC, FORTRAN, LISP, C# etc etc!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference

In days of old, it used to be COBOL, nowadays it is more than likely Java.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Incite comes Insight...: Why enterprises may never adopt LAMP] Reference

For Web-Empire he blogged about Grace Hopper the origonator of the COBOL language.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snell-Pym » Ada Lovelace Day - A Review] Reference

On the other hand, forgiveness for having invented COBOL should be very hard toget.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Is It Easier To Get Forgiveness than Permission?] Reference

The guys who do articles like, "Why Mainframes Still Matter," and "COBOL As A Career.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Computerworld, I hate you] Reference

She and her colleagues helped develop a common business computer language, known as COBOL.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Ada Lovelace Day!] Reference

Really, for what I need to do, its just SQL with a COBOL/RPG cross language wrapped around it.    From Wordnik.com.  [catpewk Diary Entry] Reference

The guys who do articles like, “Why Mainframes Still Matter,” and “COBOL As A Career.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : Computerworld, I hate you] Reference

Our systems are relatively state-of-the-art -- Windows and Unix as opposed to legacy mainframe COBOL.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Security A Competitive Advantage] Reference

It could be written in COBOL on stone tablets for all I care, as long as the API is developer-friendly. reply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Well Played: Come2Play Releases Open Source Multi-Player API for Casual Gaming] Reference

Meant to add: COBOL can read a “regular” file into a data area in memory and write an XML file from it. reply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can Open Government Be Gamed?] Reference

COBOL is an old (by computing standards) language, its usefulness, where it exists at all, exists on the periphery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pentagon Revulsion, diabolical PR] Reference

COBOL was a business oriented computing langauge, much different than the science/math/engineering oriented FORTRAN.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nanotech Research Funding, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Most of the other 4GLs available today look more like COBOL or RPG, the most tedious of the third generation lanaguages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortune Cookie File from Karl Lehenbauer Part 5] Reference

(For that matter, Mr. Slippery suspected that most banks still looked wistfully back to the days of credit cards and COBOL.).    From Wordnik.com.  [True Names]

At the time, though, my client the COBOL compiler company Micro Focus had a product that fixed a problem they helped create.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pentagon Revulsion, diabolical PR] Reference

Not sure I understand the fixation w/COBOL here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

I took a look at it and sorta freaked when I saw that NC ESC is using COBOL.    From Wordnik.com.  [About.com Job Searching] Reference

I'm well past 40, and have only wrangled a bit of COBOL in my 30 year career.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

Natural is nearly 35 years old and was developed by Software AG to compete with COBOL.    From Wordnik.com.  [SD Times Latest News] Reference