Cobol Research Premier research in Cobol is ongoing at the Universiteit Van Amsterdam.
Pointers are necessary to access many of the interfaces written in other programming languages.
This article describes and illustrates the use of data pointers and their related features. Type declarations can be used to declare user-defined data types. Types can be used to insure that two items have the same description. The SET statement has been enhanced so that it can set the contents of one pointer to that of another pointer. Schricker has also implemented, and managed the implementation of compilers and compiler related tools.