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.
A functional programming language (often called procedural language) is a language which creates programs using functions, returning to a new output state and receiving as input the result of other functions. When a function invokes itself, we refer to this as recursion.