15 Oct
2019
15 Oct
'19
8:07 a.m.
From: Chuck Guzis
One could argue that it's just as similar to
FORTRAN (cf. computed GOTO
and logical IF statements).
It probably worth pointing out that I never used COBOL, and have little
knowledge of it. So when one reads "it is vaguely reminiscent of COBOL, as it
has a 'Data Division' and a 'Procedure Division'", I must have copied
that
all from some source I found, because I don't know what the 'Data Division'
and a 'Procedure Division' are (although I can guess from the names).
Where it differs mainly from FORTRAN of the times is a
facility for
record layout
I seem to recall that COBOL was the first language with support for
structures? If DIBOL has support for them too, which would be another
similarity between the two.
Noel