Keeper of the language; Codasyl Chairman Nelson oversees Cobol innovation. (Don Nelson, Cobol Committee of the Conference on Data Systems Languages)

From: Software Magazine | Date: March 1, 1988| Author: Desmond, John | Copyright information

The development of the Cobol 85 language version was overseen by Don Nelson, 11-year chmn of the Conference on Data System Languages (Codasyl) Cobol Committee. Codasyl, a clearinghouse for systems language development, prints proposals for language modifications in the Journal of Development. Official US standards are written by the American National Standards Institute and only proposals published in the Journal of Development are considered. The main emphasis behind Cobol 85 was to get new ...

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