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 ====== COBOL ======
+COBOL, the COmmon Business-Oriented Language, was created by the CODASYL
+consortium in 1959. COBOL was designed to be used for business
+programming tasks, and, as such, the language has had little interaction
+with, or input from, the computer science community. In fact, computer
+scientists including Edsger Dijkstra have heavily criticised the
+language.
+One of the design goals of the language was for COBOL programs to be
+readable (and perhaps writable) by non-programmers, such as executives.
+COBOL has, however, arguably failed at this goal. The language adopts an
+immensely verbose syntax, but also rigid structural requirements, which
+have their origins in the era of punched cards. It provides only limited
+support for structured programming.
+Despite its shortcomings, COBOL is still widely used in business and
+government applications, and estimates claim that many billions of lines
+of COBOL code (a testament to its verbosity as much as its popularity)
+are maintained today, primarily as legacy applications.
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