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business application language
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data record
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primitive data types of a language
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database record
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report generation
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hierarchical structures
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spreadsheet
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full-text indexing
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database model
Reference
Glass, R.L., "Cobol--A contradiction and an enigma", Communications of the ACM, 40, 9, pp. 11-13, September 1997. Google
11 ;;Quote: two-thirds of programmers use a Cobol; it appears to be the best business application language
12 ;;Quote: business programming needs data records, decimal arithmetic, report generation, large databases
12 ;;Quote: business data is heterogeneous and hierarchical: fixed-length strings, variable-length strings, and decimal numbers
12 ;;Quote: business programs use fixed-point, decimal arithmetic to round numbers as humans do
12 ;;Quote: a typical business report contains labeled columns, identifying strings, and a hierarchy of totals
12 ;;Quote: business data uses indexed sequential files for sequential processing and indexed retrieval; also relational and object-oriented databases
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Topic: business application language (11 items)
Topic: data record (57 items)
Topic: primitive data types of a language (31 items)
Topic: database record (22 items)
Topic: report generation (11 items)
Topic: hierarchical structures (43 items)
Topic: spreadsheet (28 items)
Topic: full-text indexing (35 items)
Group: database model (15 topics, 314 quotes)