# ISO/IEC 1989:2014 — Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards For ISO/IEC 1989:2014, item title is Information technology — Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces — Programming language COBOL; status code is 9599; successor is ISO/IEC 1989:2023; withdrawn / published date is 2014-05-26, recorded from its source on 2026-08-05. - **Identifier:** ISO/IEC 1989:2014 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ - **Item title:** Information technology — Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces — Programming language COBOL _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ - **Status code:** 9599 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ - **Successor:** ISO/IEC 1989:2023 - **Withdrawn / published date:** 2014-05-26 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ ## What the source says > 51416,IS,,ISO/IEC 1989:2014,"Information technology — Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces — Programming language COBOL","Technologies de l'information — Langages de programmation, leur environnement et interfaces des logiciels de systèmes — Langage de programmation COBOL",2014-05-26,2,['35.060'],ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22,9599,"[44370,43808,53462,28805]",[74527],['en'],927,"

ISO/IEC 1989:2014 specifies the syntax and semantics of COBOL. Its purpose is to promote a high degree of machine independence to permit the use of COBOL on a variety of data processing systems.

ISO/IEC 1989:2014 specifies: