DIBOL

Dibol

Paradigm(s)	procedural, imperative, structured
Appeared in	1970
Developer	DEC
Stable release	Dibol 1992 (2002)
Typing discipline	static
Major implementations	Synergex DBL, DEC VAX Dibol, others
Influenced by	BASIC, Fortran
Website	www.dibol.com

DiBOL or Digital's Business Oriented Language 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.

History

DIBOL was originally marketed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1970.

The original version, DIBOL-8, was produced for PDP-8, PDP-11 and DIBOL-32 VAX/VMS systems, though it can also be run on other systems through emulators.

ANSI Standards were released in 1983, 1988 and 1992. The 1992 standard was revised in 2002.

See also

• Timeline of programming languages

External links

• Official DIBOL site
• ANSI INCITS 165-1992 (R2002) Programming Language DIBOL (Downloadable PDF Standard for purchase from ANSI)
• Synergex Synergy/DE features the Synergy/DBL DIBOL compiler.

Reading

• American National Standards Institute; Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association (CBEMA) (1988). American National Standard for Information Systems- Programming Language, DIBOL. New York, NY: American National Standards Institute. OCLC 23056850. 
• American National Standards Institute; Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association (CBEMA) (1992). American National Standard for Information Systems- Programming Language, DIBOL. New York, NY: American National Standards Institute. OCLC 27058852.