COBOL

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COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) is a programming language first developed for business applications in the late 1950s. It was frequently referenced by humanists interested in applying computers and algorithms to their research, though infrequently used.

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Creator(s): Conference on Data Systems Languages (CODASYL)

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Type of analysis: Programming
Type of license: Commercial
Background Processing: Doesn't Run in Background
Web Usable: Other
Ease of Use: Difficult
Historic Tool (developed before 2005): Influential Development sustained to present
TaDiRAH Goals: Creation
TaDiRAH Methods: Programming

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Amy Dyrbye

COBOL was often discussed in comparison to other programming languages by scholars interested in applying computer methods to research. For more information, please see the following papers:

Raskin, Jeffrey F. \"Programming Languages for the Humanities.\" Computers and the Humanities 5.3 (1971): 155-158. Web.

Wachal, Robert S. \"The Machine in the Garden: Computers and literary scholarship, 1970.\" Computers and the Humanities 5.1 (1970): 23-28. Web.

Bennett Kuwan Tchoh

COBOL was mentioned in a research abstract available in XML format at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lehkost/ToolXtractor/master/data/xml/2019/STELL_John_Qualitative_Space_of_Poetry.xml

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