COBOL or common business oriented language was one of the very first computer programing languages (1959!). It was so exciting at the time that a meeting was pulled together at the Pentagon for a type of show-and-tell. You can find an introduction to COBOL and how to write your first program at this website: http://www.astahost.com/info.php/Introduction-Cobol_t12623.html. There are also many
. books available at amazon.com for a walk through and how to transition over to C++. There are more COBOL commands at this website:http://www.astahost.com/info.php/Introduction-Cobol_t12623.html.
