The Fortran and COBOL programming languages have both been around for a long time. Fortran was released around 1957, while COBOL followed a couple years later. Fortran has historically been mostly used for numerical and scientific calculations, while COBOL is primarily used by businesses.
Both languages are still in use, and lots of legacy software were written in them. The language elements (terms, concepts, the good, bad, ugly ones) have great influence to most of the software developers today.
Fortran is primarily for scientific calculation (precision and accuracy is required), while Cobol is for commerical, banking, financial services (the C of Cobol stands for Commercial) industries. They are legacy, but foundations / backbones of current computing.
Have you heard of Y2K?
Have you ever wonder why an integer index is always named "i","j", "k", ..."n"?
Have you ever be told to put your declaration on top of any programming unit?
Do you hear "Subroutine, Function, Dimension, GO TO, Perform, Label,..." being used to explain some concepts in a computer language that does not have those terms / keywords? At least 1 question with answer "yes" from any experienced developer. The influence will be passed onto the next generation.
Fortran, the original version of which came out in 1954. COBOL came out in 1961, BASIC came out in 1964, C came out in 1971. See the Related Link.
BASIC, COBOL, and FORTRAN are all high-level programming languages.
They are computer programming languages.
fortran language,basic language,cobol language.
BASIC and FORTRAN are computer programming languages.
example of procedural programming are those programming language that have structure e.g basic,fortran,c++,c and pascal e.t.c
BASIC , FORTRAN ,COBOL , PASCAL are high level lanhuages which are simply understood by us used in the computers.
Alan Cooper, the 'father' of Visual Basic, shows a drag-and-drop shell prototype called Tripod to Bill Gates. Microsoft took over Tripod. That was the beginning of Visual Basic. She combined it with BASIC. BASIC is based on FORTRAN II and ALGOL. FORTRAN II was developed by IBM. So basically Visual Basic is written in ALGOL and FORTRAN II.
From oldest to newest: FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC, and C++
C. Joseph Sass has written: 'Basic programming for business' -- subject(s): BASIC (Computer program language), Business, Data processing 'A structural approach to FORTRAN 77 programming' -- subject(s): FORTRAN (Computer program language) 'Fortran IV programming and applications' -- subject(s): FORTRAN IV (Computer program language) 'A structured approach to BASIC programming' -- subject(s): BASIC (Computer program language)
fortran language,basic language,cobol language.
Robert C. Nickerson has written: 'Instructor's manual for Fundamentals of FORTRAN programming' 'Fundamentals of FORTRAN programming' -- subject(s): FORTRAN (Computer program language) 'Instructor's manual, COBOL programming' 'Fundamentals of programming in BASIC' -- subject(s): BASIC (Computer program language)
BASIC and FORTRAN are computer programming languages.
example of procedural programming are those programming language that have structure e.g basic,fortran,c++,c and pascal e.t.c
Bijan Mashaw has written: 'C++ programming byte by byte' 'Programming byte by byte' -- subject(s): FORTRAN 77 (Computer program language), Structured programming 'BASIC' -- subject(s): BASIC (Computer program language)
Basic, Fortran, and C
V. Thomas Dock has written: 'Structured FORTRAN IV programming' -- subject(s): FORTRAN IV (Computer program language), Structured programming 'Instructor's manual to accompany Structured COBOL' 'Principles of business data processing, with BASIC' -- subject(s): BASIC (Computer program language), Business, Data processing 'FORTRAN IV programming' -- subject(s): FORTRAN IV (Computer program language) 'COBOL: American National Standard' -- subject(s): COBOL (Computer program language) 'Structured BASIC programming for business' -- subject(s): BASIC (Computer program language), Business, Data processing 'Study guide to accompany Computer information systems for business' -- subject(s): Business, Information storage and retrieval systems, Management information systems 'Instructor's manual to accompany Structured BASIC programming for business'
BASIC , FORTRAN ,COBOL , PASCAL are high level lanhuages which are simply understood by us used in the computers.
Alan Cooper, the 'father' of Visual Basic, shows a drag-and-drop shell prototype called Tripod to Bill Gates. Microsoft took over Tripod. That was the beginning of Visual Basic. She combined it with BASIC. BASIC is based on FORTRAN II and ALGOL. FORTRAN II was developed by IBM. So basically Visual Basic is written in ALGOL and FORTRAN II.
COBOL, FORTRAN, BASIC, C and C++.