What is the difference between cobol-74 and cobol-85?

Answer 1

COBOL-85 is a later version of COBOL language. COBOL-85 also known as VS COBOL-II provides more features than COBOL-74. Some of the features of COBOL-85 are:

1. In COBOL-85 we can use following delimiters such as END-IF, END-PERFORM,END-STRING,etc.

2. We can use EVALUATE verb in place of complex IF structures.

3. CALL statement can pass variables by CONTENT and BY reference. In COBOL-74 we can only use pass by reference.

4. A new verb CONTINUE is introduced in order to over come the limitations of NEXT SENTENCE verb.

5. COBOL - 85 supports 32 bit addressing mode.

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