cobol-interpreter-lab/lab-2/LANGUAGE.md

Language Proposal

1. Hello World

• source used: Cobol Emulator

• display the text "Hello World!" in the terminal

• https://www.tutorialspoint.com/cobol/cobol_program_structure.htm this website has useful information about the structure of the cobol language

• the Identification Division is mandatory for all programs and sub divisions have unique sentences within them and determine what is done with variables or IO in this example

  Input

    there is no input for this example
  

  Output

    the string "Hello World!" is sent to output via the included DISPLAY function
  

2. Quadratic Function

• Note: code needs to be formatted

• credit to Marco Biagini

• a quadratic equation of the form ax^2 + bx + c = 0

  Input

    User will be prompted for a, b, and c (ex. 1, 5, 6)
  

  Output

  Program will display the real roots or if there are no real roots (ex. -2, -3)
  

3. Integer Sort

4. Language Features