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Designing structured cobol programs
Author(s) -
Ferstl O. K.,
Sinz E. J.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.4380120507
Subject(s) - cobol , computer science , programming language , documentation , programming style , software engineering , second generation programming language , programming paradigm , fifth generation programming language
COBOL is now more than 20 years old and will probably survive to become much older. Since it has some features which are out of date it is desirable to adapt at least the program style to some standards of modern programming languages. The adaption is not only a matter of style but also of costs of program production and program maintenance. This paper presents constructional rules for programming in COBOL which by‐pass some of the drawbacks and allow more readable and more maintainable program structures. Finally a postprocessor is presented, that allows verification of the chosen constructional rules and documentation of the resulting programs.