| Paradigm | procedural, imperative, structured |
|---|---|
| Developer | DEC |
| First appeared | 1970 |
| Stable release | DIBOL 1992
/ 2002 |
| Typing discipline | static |
| Major implementations | |
| DEC DIBOL, Synergex DBL, Unibol | |
| Influenced by | |
| BASIC, Fortran, COBOL | |
DIBOL or Digital's Business Oriented Language is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that was designed for use in Management Information Systems (MIS) software development. It was developed from 1970 to 1993.
DIBOL has a syntax similar to FORTRAN and BASIC, along with BCD arithmetic. It shares the COBOL program structure of separate data and procedure divisions. Unlike Fortran's numeric labels (for GOTO), DIBOL's were alphanumeric;[1] the language supported a counterpart to computed goto.[2]