<p>COBOL was often discussed in comparison to other programming languages by scholars interested in applying computer methods to research. For more information, please see the following papers:</p> <p>Raskin, Jeffrey F. \"Programming Languages for the Humanities.\" <em>Computers and the Humanities</em> 5.3 (1971): 155-158. <a href=\"http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02402180\" target=\"_blank\">Web</a>.</p> <p><span>Wachal, Robert S. \"The Machine in the Garden: Computers and literary scholarship, 1970.\"<em> Computers and the Humanities</em> 5.1 (1970): 23-28. <a href=\"http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02404254\" target=\"_blank\">Web</a>. </span></p>