1. COBOL was created to fulfill two major objectives: portability (ability of programs to be run with minimum modification on computers from different manufacturers) and readability (ease with which a program can be read like ordinary English).
6. But this method was the norm back when Cobol was the hottest programming language on the planet.
但是早在cobol成为本星球上最热门的编程语言时,这种方法已是一种(人人都这么做的)准则。
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7. In computer programming, section of a COBOL program that represents a logical processing entity.
在计算机程序设计中,cobol程序中代表一个逻辑处理实体的一部分。
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8. In COBOL, a set of consecutive words whose purpose is to specify an attribute of an entry.There are three types of clauses:data, environment, and file.
cobol语言中的一组相邻的字,其目的是说明一个项的属性。子句有三种类型:数据、环境和文件。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
9. A high-level language needing a compiler to translate it into machine language. These languages include APL,COBOL, PASCAL, C, PL-1, and so on.