Cobol (ISO 1989:1985)
Intro to standard
Cobol is a programming language that is primarly intended for
business-applications. Its main forces are file-handling,
formatted screen and printer output and a huge installed base
of programs written in it. You still have to format your code
as if you was using punch cards. The standard has poor support
for structuring big programs, but recently there has come some
object-oriented Cobol-compilers that probably is much more
up-to-date.
Standard-resources
The standard organization ISO is
on-line. They offer
several documents for sale.
The age shows when you look for web-pages. The web-pages is new, the
language is not. There is at least one page however.
It seems to be the main
page for Cobol :-). (There should also be a
FAQ
, but it has moved, and the forward-link is obsolete.)
There are two Usenet newsgroups for Cobol: