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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:Women by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

    Men have Perl: a series of unintelligable grunts.

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