Common Business Oriented Language - COBOL

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0-0-1. 0-1-1? 0-0-1-1-0. LOL!

Sorry, we’re just telling ourselves jokes in binary code. Don’t mind us.

Speaking of code, have you heard about COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language)? 0-1-1, you have…sorry. But computers are so funny.

COBOL is a programming language—the most widely used in the world—and has been around since the late 1950s. It's an English-like programming language that is designed for business, finance, and governmental systems.

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