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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. 100 years? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What does 1906 have to do COBOL or computing in general? Speakeasies weren't even popular yet.