Lably
Skip to content

COMTRAN

  • 8 min read
  • 3 chapters

Related on Lably

Through COBOL

Contributions to COBOL

Several elements of COMTRAN were incorporated into COBOL:

  • Picture clause.
  • Paragraphing: dividing code into paragraphs (with line breaks not significant).
  • Paragraph names. Assigning names to paragraphs, and jumps (GO TO's) are to a paragraph name, not to a line number.
  • AT END clause on file input operations.
  • Figurative constant HIGH-VALUE.
  • Passing a numeric value (RETURN-CODE) back to the operating system when the program terminates.

Sign in to keep reading

2 more chapters are free with a Lably account.

More in Computing and communication