DIBOL or Digital Interactive Business Oriented Language is a is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language, which is well-suited for Management Information Systems (MIS) software development. It has a syntax similar to FORTRAN and BASIC, along with BCD arithmetic. It shares the COBOL program structure of data and procedure divisions. A programming paradigm is a paradigmatic style of programming (compare with a methodology, which is a paradigmatic style of doing software engineering). ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... In computer science, imperative programming, as opposed to declarative programming, is a programming paradigm that describes computation in terms of a program state and statements that change the program state. ... Structured programming can be seen as a subset or subdiscipline of procedural programming, one of the major programming paradigms. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... A software developer is a person who is concerned with one or more facets of the software development process, a somewhat broader scope of computer programming or a specialty of project managing. ... The DEC logo Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering American company in the computer industry. ... A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ... In computer science, a type system defines how a programming language classifies values and expressions into types, how it can manipulate those types and how they interact. ... Look up Implementation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Screenshot of Atari BASIC, an early BASIC language for small computers. ... Fortran (previously FORTRAN[1]) is a general-purpose[2], procedural,[3] imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, images, videos and other digital assets and hosted on a particular domain or subdomain on the World Wide Web. ... General-purpose programming language or General purpose Softwares refers to a type software that is suitable for most ordinary computer applications. ... Procedural programming is a programming paradigm based upon the concept of the modularity and scope of program code (i. ... In computer science, imperative programming, as opposed to declarative programming, is a programming paradigm that describes computation in terms of a program state and statements that change the program state. ... A programming language is an artificial language that can be used to control the behavior of a machine, particularly a computer. ... Management Information Systems (MIS), are information systems, typically computer based, that are used within an organization. ... Fortran (previously FORTRAN[1]) is a general-purpose[2], procedural,[3] imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. ... BASIC (Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of high-level programming languages. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... COBOL is a third-generation programming language, and one of the oldest programming languages still in active use. ...

History

DIBOL was originally marketed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1970. The DEC logo Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering American company in the computer industry. ...

The original version was produced for PDP-8,PDP-11 and DIBOL-32 VAX/VMS systems, though it can also be run on other systems through emulators. A PDP-8 on display at the Smithsonians National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.. This example is from the first generation of PDP-8s, built with discrete transistors and later known as the Straight 8. ... The PDP-11 was a 16-bit minicomputer sold by Digital Equipment Corp. ... OpenVMS V7. ... An emulator reproducing a console games playable atmosphere on a Windows computer. ...

ANSI Standards were released in 1983, 1988 and 1992. The 1992 standard was revised in 2002. The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is a private, non-profit standards organization that produces industrial standards in the United States. ...

External links

• Official DIBOL site
• ANSI INCITS 165-1992 (R2002) Programming Language DIBOL (Downloadable PDF Standard for purchase from ANSI)

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Reading

American National Standards Institute; Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association (CBEMA) (1988). American National Standard for Information Systems- Programming Language, DIBOL (in english). New York, NY: ANSI. OCLC 71467995.  The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is a private, non-profit standards organization that produces industrial standards in the United States. ... // The International Committee for Information Technology Standards, or INCITS (pronounced insights [1]), is an ANSI-accredited forum of IT developers. ... OCLC Online Computer Library Center was founded in 1967 and originally named the Ohio College Library Center (OCLC). ...