Board:   [DeveloperNet] DeveloperNet General
Subject: 60th Anniversary
From:    Dumas Walker
Date:    Mon Apr 15, 2019 20:54

>  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.

She sure did!  She is considered by many to be the mother of the language.

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