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unusual facts about COBOL programming language



S/SL programming language

S/SL has been used to implement production commercial compilers for languages such as PL/I, Euclid, Turing, Ada, and COBOL, as well as interpreters, command processors, and domain specific languages of many kinds.


see also

Binary-coded decimal

Packed BCD is supported in the COBOL programming language as the "COMPUTATIONAL-3" (an IBM extension adopted by many other compiler vendors) or "PACKED-DECIMAL" (part of the 1985 COBOL standard) data type.

Sylvania Electric Products

They were one of the companies involved in the development of the COBOL programming language.