Editing DIBOL (section)

{{Infobox programming language
| name = DIBOL
| paradigm = [[procedural programming|procedural]], [[Imperative programming language|imperative]], [[structured programming|structured]]
| year = 1970
| developer = [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]]
| latest_release_version = DIBOL 1992
| latest_release_date = 2002
| typing = [[Type system#Static type-checking|static]]
| implementations = DEC DIBOL, Synergex DBL, Unibol
| dialects = 
| influenced_by = [[BASIC]], [[Fortran]], [[COBOL]]
| influenced = 
| website = 
}}

'''DIBOL''' or '''Digital's Business Oriented Language''' is a [[General-purpose programming language|general-purpose]], [[Procedural programming languages|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 programming language|BASIC]], along with [[Binary-coded decimal|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;<ref>{{cite magazine  |magazine=DEC Professional |date=November 1982 |page=70
|title=Dibol Subroutine}}</ref> the language supported a counterpart to computed goto.<ref>example:
GOTO(XSMALL,XMED,XLARG),XCODE {{cite magazine  |magazine=DEC Professional |date=November 1982
|author=J. Scott Canfield |pages=18–20 |title=DIBOL, Data Entry Subroutine}}</ref>