Board:   [DeveloperNet] DeveloperNet General
Subject: 60th Anniversary
From:    Nightfox
Date:    Mon Apr 15, 2019 12:37

  Re: 60th Anniversary
  By: Dumas Walker to ALL on Mon Apr 08 2019 05:30 pm

 DW> Today, April 8, is the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the conference
 DW> that eventually came up with the original version of the business-oriented
 DW> computer language that we all know and love -- COBOL!

 DW> Happy Birthday, COBOL!

Cool, I didn't realize that.  :)  I also remember hearing that Grace Hopper had
some involvement with COBOL?  Looking on Wikipedia, it says she popularized the
idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to COBOL.

Nightfox

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