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    From Dumas Walker@DIGDIST/BATTLEST/FREEWAY to ALL on Mon Apr 8 17:30:00 2019
    Today, April 8, is the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the conference
    that eventually came up with the original version of the business-oriented computer language that we all know and love -- COBOL!

    Happy Birthday, COBOL!

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  • From Nightfox@DIGDIST/BATTLEST/FREEWAY to Dumas Walker on Mon Apr 15 11:37:00 2019
    Re: 60th Anniversary
    By: Dumas Walker to ALL on Mon Apr 08 2019 05:30 pm

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

    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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  • From Dumas Walker@DIGDIST/BATTLEST/FREEWAY to NIGHTFOX on Mon Apr 15 19:54:00 2019
    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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