© 1976 by British Computer Society
The significance of the 1974 COBOL standard
Department of Computation, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 88, Manchester, UK
This paper studies the American National Standard on COBOL published in 1974. The many new features are described and their significance investigated. Finally the problems of converting existing programs to the new Standard are discussed.
Received August 1975.
* Department of Computation, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD