.CBL File

The cbl file extension is associated with the Cobol programming language.

The cbl file stores Cobol source code.

COBOL is a high-level programming language first developed by the CODASYL Committee (Conference on Data Systems Languages) in 1960.

Since then, responsibility for developing new COBOL standards has been assumed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).

Three ANSI standards for COBOL have been produced: in 1968, 1974 and 1985. A new COBOL standard introducing object-oriented programming to COBOL, is due within the next few years.

The word COBOL is an acronym that stands for COmmon Business Oriented Language. As the the expanded acronym indicates, COBOL is designed for developing business, typically file-oriented, applications. It is not designed for writing systems programs. For instance you would not develop an operating system or a compiler using COBOL.

A cbl file extension is related to the Cobol programming language and used for its source code files.

How to open:

Use COBOL IDE Project to open *.cbl source code files.

How to convert:

Probably cannot be converted to anything else.