Are COBOL Programs English-like?
Just as text in English is organised into sections and para’s, COBOL Programs can also be broken down into divisions, divisions further into sections, and sections into paragraphs. Each paragraph contain sentences, or COBOL Statements. Like the English language, sentences(statements) in COBOL should end with a period(full-stop). When you start new paragraphs in COBOL, you need to indent them, just as in English you follow indentation rules. COBOL then is whole-lot English like. Even instructions in COBOL, are words borrowed from English, ADD, SUBTRACT, MULTIPLY, DIVIDE etc.
