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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. Women by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It figures. One of the wordiest (is that a word?) programming languages was invented by a woman. Talk talk talk. :-)

    I couldn't resist.

  2. Happy Birthday to You! Happy Birthday to you! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Even though you died in 1992, Happy Birthday to You!

  3. The only way... by camperdave · · Score: 3, Funny

    The only way I could code my way out of a wet paper bag in COBOL would be if my life depended on it (and I had a few COBOL programming texts in the bag with me). All I remember about COBOL is that it is long winded... as per its alternate acronym expansion: Considered Obsolete Because Of Length.

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  4. Re:Kids: Learn COBOL, stay employed by camperdave · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nonsense! Cobol is machine independent and self-documenting, and it is still around because it is a very fit, if not the fittest, language for business purposes. Besides It would likely be far easier to pull together a COBOL compiler than to rewrite, test, debug, (document, don't forget document) and release any application that was written in COBOL.

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