| 31. | They might as well have been written in Sumerian, Morse code or COBOL.
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| 32. | Yet Cobol, updated many times over the years, is still widely used.
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| 33. | A : I don't hate Cobol.
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| 34. | Why do you hate Cobol and mainframe computers?
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| 35. | (Mahesh . Nairnytsyn . com . ) I don't hate Cobol.
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| 36. | COBOL was an early language to be compiled on multiple architectures, in 1960.
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| 37. | COBOL 2002 also introduced free-format code.
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| 38. | This situation improved as COBOL adopted more features.
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| 39. | An example of how a map can be sent through COBOL is given below.
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| 40. | Extended versions of COBOL also provide pointer variables declared with USAGE IS POINTER clauses.
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