DIBOL or Digital Interactive Business Oriented Language is a COBOL-related programming language originally marketed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1970. It has a syntax similar to Fortran and BASIC programming language, along with BCD arithmetic.

The original version was produced for PDP-8 and PDP-11 systems, though it can also be run on other systems through emulators.

= Third-party replacements for DIBOL =

A number of companies developed derivatives of this language, including Omtool (Softbol); Software Ireland (Unibol); and DISC (now [http://www.synergex.com Synergex] ), who developed DBL. As the market leader of DIBOL derivatives, DBL (DISC) worked out an agreement several years ago to officially take over DIBOL from DEC, and quickly migrated all of DECs customers to DBL. DISC also acquired Softbol from Omtool and converted most, if not all, Unibol customers to DBL. Over the years, DBL has evolved into a portable, multi-platform development environment, now called called Synergy/DE.

Nowadays, Synergy/DE allows the development and deployment of multi-platform, web-enabled applications that integrate with e-commerce solutions, ODBC-enabled reporting tools, RDBMSs, ActiveX components, wireless devices, and other third-party applications and data.

DIBOL-to-COBOL Compilers are also available.

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