December 9, 2013 marked what would have been the 107 th birthday of Grace Hopper, an American computer scientist, naval admiral, and the Mother of COBOL. Created in 1959, COBOL is the development ...
In the early 1980s, I was told that COBOL was going away and that I should quickly move toward other programming languages. Well, thirty years later, COBOL is alive and well and living in large ...
Neither English nor COBOL are going to be supplanted any time soon. So rather than defining what English – and COBOL – is now, and closing the door to change, the focus is on adapting to and working ...