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100 Years of Grace Hopper

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the beautiful-jumping dept.

theodp writes "Grab your COBOL Coding Forms and head on over to comp.lang.cobol, kids! Yesterday was Grace Hopper's 100th birthday, and many are still singing the praises of her Common Business-Oriented Language."

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  1. Re:Perfect Example by smcdow · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    If someplace is in a crisis because it has to migrate its critical legacy COBOL application and can't find anyone to do it, well that's just too bad. Chalk another one up to darwin....

    s/COBOL/Java/, fast forward 20 years, and the same crises will happen again.

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    In the course of every project, it will become necessary to shoot the scientists and begin production.