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Happy Birthday Grace Hopper!
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Happy Birthday Grace Hopper!
Quote:For most people who work in IT, the programming language COBOL is as dead as the dodo.

Yet Grace Hopper, the woman credited with establishing COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) as the language of business, would be pleased to know that 100 years after her birth, the language still underpins many applications that keep modern businesses going.

This Saturday is the centennial of Grace Hopper, who was born on December 9, 1906. Often referred to as "the mother of COBOL," her contribution to the theory and practice of programming is commonly appreciated as enormous. She is credited, among other achievements, with being the first person to develop a compiled program in an age when computers worked by running programs that were interpreted one line at a time...

full article: http://news.com.com/100+years+of+Grace+H...42101.html
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Re: Happy Birthday Grace Hopper!
Happy Birthday, Grace!


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