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CoBol is a programming language invented in the 1960's. It stands for Common Business-Oriented Language and is largely ignored by the programming community today. Even back in the 1960s, it wasn't used much by scientists, as it's not really designed for the kinds of mathematics scientists need to do.

There are better languages that can be used for science these days such as FORTRAN which was designed for scientific purposes or any of the newer object oriented languages such as C,C++,c#,VB et.c

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