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href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/09/iwd_grace_hopper/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/09/iwd_grace_hopper/</a><br>
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One time, I'm not sure of the date--probably in the 70s or early
80s, I had the opportunity to hear a talk/lecture/presentation by
Grace Murray Hopper. I've never forgotten it. She was one of a
kind.<br>
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Among other things, she was instrumental in the development of
Cobol. Most programmers today sneer at it, but as the article
says:<br>
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<blockquote>"COBOL was one of the most successful computer languages
and is still in use today. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/18/cobol_name_birthday/">Research
by Datamonitor</a> found that in 2008 there were between 1.5 and
2 million developers still working with the 50-year-old
programming language, adding five billion lines of code to the 200
billion already running on live systems."<br>
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BTW, I'm not now and never was a COBOL programmer (FORTRAN, another
sneer-able language, was my bag.)<br>
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Mark Jarvis<br>
(ancient geek)<br>
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