COBOL

Common Business-Oriented Language

First appeared: 1959Designed by: CODASYL

A verbose, English-like language designed for business data processing, still running critical mainframe applications.

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ProceduralOOP

IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. HELLO.
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
  DISPLAY "Hello, World!".
  STOP RUN.

Developed in 1959 by the CODASYL committee. COBOL-85 and COBOL 2002 added structured and OOP features. Still actively maintained.

Type system: Static