1.【计】通用商业(程序)语言
1.Common Business-Oriented Language: a computer language used for writing programs, especially for business
1.Because of its simplicity and easy-to-understand syntax, COBOL is used as the programming language for the sample program in this article.
由于其简单性和易于理解的语法，我们使用COBOL作为本文中的样例程序的编程语言。
2.In a recent meeting, one participant who used to code in COBOL asked what was different between SOA and what he did with COBOL copybooks .
在最近的一个会议上，一个用COBOL编写代码的参与者被问及在SOA与他使用的COBOL抄写本所做的工作中有什么区别。
3.The company is not able to easily recruit new developers to work on COBOL, the main programming language in use.
公司不能容易地招募新的开发人员来从事COBOL方面的工作，COBOL是目前使用的主要编程语言。
4.You can compare EGL to what COBOL did in the '60s: make it easy to code applications that were originally written in Assembler language.
可以将EGL与COBOL在20世纪60年代所起的作用做一下比较：使得最初用汇编语言编写的应用程序的代码编写变得容易。
5.But the point is, how much of your application can you now develop doing UML transformation to COBOL?
但问题是，通过从UML到COBOL的转换，您能在多大程度上开发您的应用程序呢？
6.Place the high-activity data elements at the beginning of each group of the WORKING STORAGE SECTION variables (COBOL).
将频繁调用的数据元素放在每组工作存储区变量的开头（COBOL）。
7.I had mentioned before that you could make a packer in Logo or Object-Oriented COBOL, and that really was only partially true.
我曾提到过你可以用Logo或者面向对象的COBOL，那只是相对正确的。
8.It also generates COBOL client sample code that can be used to call the JBoss ESB service and jump-start your own development.
它还生成了COBOL客户端示例代码，这些代码可以调用JBossESB的服务，并为开发做好准备。
9.The Finance Management is one of the main courses for the accountancy COBOL majors in higher vocational colleges.
《财务管理》是高职会计电算化专业的主干课程之一。
10.The tricky issue, though, is the fact that the PhoneBook application expects the data structures to be defined in COBOL language.
可是不易处理的问题是，应用软件期望这个数据结构用COBOL语言来定义。