What is the full form of COBOL?
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COncentrated Behavioral Orientation language
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COmmon Behavioral Orientation language
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COmmon Business Oriented Language
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COncentrated Business Orientated language
COBOL stands for COmmon Business Oriented Language. This name reflects its original purpose - a language designed for business, data processing, and administrative applications. Options A, B, and D incorrectly expand the acronym with 'Concentrated' or misspell 'Orientated.'
COBOL stands for COmmon Business Oriented Language, reflecting its 1959 design goal (by CODASYL) of being a portable, English-like language for common business data-processing tasks (payroll, billing, inventory) across different vendors' computers, as opposed to a purely 'behavioral' or scientific-computing focus. The other choices swap in 'Behavioral' or 'Concentrated,' which are not part of the real, historically established acronym.