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Support for new COBOL 2002 standard. (Software Tools).


Micro Focus International Ltd., is to support the forthcoming COBOL COBOL: see programming language.
COBOL
 in full Common Business-Oriented Language.

High-level computer programming language, one of the first widely used languages and for many years the most popular language in the business community.
 2002 standard, and implement the new standardised Adj. 1. standardised - brought into conformity with a standard; "standardized education"
standardized

standard - conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind; "windows of standard width";
 language into all future releases of all COBOL platform products including Server Express, Net Express, and Mainframe Express, they will also include die new language features in its Revolve re·volve  
v. re·volved, re·volv·ing, re·volves

v.intr.
1. To orbit a central point.

2. To turn on an axis; rotate. See Synonyms at turn.

3.
 COBOL program analysis tool. Comment: Gartner, estimates that applications managing about 85 percent of the world's business data are written in COBOL and the annual growth of the code over the next four years is 5 billion lines. These statistics, coupled with the new COGOL 2002 standard, underscore The underscore character (_) is often used to make file, field and variable names more readable when blank spaces are not allowed. For example, NOVEL_1A.DOC, FIRST_NAME and Start_Routine.

(character) underscore - _, ASCII 95.
 the market value for COBOL products and services.

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