The most widely adopted computer language in history, COBOL is now causing a host of problems. It's also dangerously difficult to remove.

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COBOL stands for Common Business-Oriented Language and was created in 1959. It was partly drawn on the work of computing pioneer Grace Hopper and was built for a single purpose: processing business ...

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Abstract: Legacy COBOL programs often exceed the token limits of modern large language models (LLMs), posing challenges for automatic summarization and comprehension. Traditional approaches either ...

The principal control-flow abstraction mechanism in the Cobol language is the perform statement. Normally, perform statements are used in a straightforward manner to define parameterless procedures ...

Migrate the merge sort program from the ankehao-demo/COBOL-Examples repository to Java. The source file is located at merge_sort/merge_sort_test.cbl.