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About COBOL
COBOL is a programming language created for businesses. COBOL has been in use much longer than most other programming languages, having been created in 1959. COBOL is a procedural, imperative, and object-oriented programming language.
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Rocket Visual COBOL
Rocket Visual COBOL is development and runtime environment that helps enterprises maintain, enhance, and modernize distributed COBOL applications. Rocket COBOL products standardize COBOL development alongside other languages, giving teams access to industry standard tools, flexible deployment options, and DevOps workflows.
With Rocket Visual COBOL, engineering teams work with COBOL inindustry-standard dev tools such as Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, and Eclipse. It delivers advanced editing and debugging, continuous background compilation, and code analysis to speed development and onboarding.
Its portable deployment platform enables risk-free moves to new infrastructure, supports cloud, container, and ARM environments, and integrates smoothly with APIs, .NET, and JVM.
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Rocket COBOL is development and runtime environment that helps enterprises maintain, enhance, and modernize distributed COBOL applications. Rocket COBOL products standardize COBOL development alongside other languages, giving teams access to industry standard tools, flexible deployment options, and DevOps workflows.
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COBOL
Founded: 1959
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