In the early stages of strike-slip fault formation, displacement within basement rocks produces characteristic fault structures within the overlying cover. This will also be the case where an active strike-slip zone lies within an area of continuing sedimentation.
COBOL Language & History. COBOL is a programming language that reads like regular English and is often used for business and administrative purposes. The name means Common Business Oriented Language. COBOL is referred to as a legacy language, which means it is in a format that is no longer used or supported by new systems.
Functional programming. For subroutine-oriented programming, see Procedural programming. In computer science, functional programming is a programming paradigmâa style of building the structure and elements of computer programsâthat treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions and avoids changing-state and mutable data.