procedure division
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
procedure division (plural procedure divisions)
- (computing) The part of a COBOL program containing all the instructions that the computer is to execute
- 1971, Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science:
- The procedure division contains the imperative, arithmetic, conditional, and other statements that create and manipulate the data.
- 1999, Gordon Bitter Davis, The Blackwell encyclopedic dictionary of management information:
- The procedure division contains program logic to compute, manipulate data, and to iterate and branch through program execution.
- 2003, Robert C. Seacord et al., Modernizing legacy systems:
- In the following alternative formulation of the procedure division, the PERFORM statement is used to execute a sequence of paragraphs.
Usage notes[edit]
- The term is capitalized (as PROCEDURE DIVISION) in the COBOL source code.