CentralNotice COBOL From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search This article is about the compiled programming language. For other uses, see COBOL (disambiguation) . COBOL Paradigm(s) procedural , imperative , object-oriented Appeared in 1959 ( 1959 ) Designed by Grace Hopper , William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet Stable release ISO/IEC 1989:2002 (2002) Typing discipline strong , static Major implementations GNU Cobol , Micro Focus International (e.g. the Eclipse -plug-in Micro Focus Net Express ) Dialects HP3000 COBOL/II, COBOL/2, IBM OS/VS COBOL, IBM COBOL/II, IBM COBOL SAA, IBM Enterprise COBOL, IBM COBOL/400, IBM ILE COBOL, Unix COBOL X/Open, Micro Focus COBOL, Microsoft COBOL, Ryan McFarland RM/COBOL, Ryan McFarland RM/COBOL-85, DOSVS COBOL, UNIVAC COBOL,...