[OT]Grace Hopper

Phil Davis revdev at pdslabs.net
Tue Oct 20 21:28:49 EDT 2009


It has been about 18 years years since I used COBOL, but for about a 
decade it was my primary language for business system development. It 
was pretty easy for a "wordy" guy like me to work with.

Phil Davis


Mark Smith wrote:
> There's a nice article about Grace Hopper here:
> http://www.i-programmer.info/history/8-people/294-the-mother-of-cobol.html 
>
>
> It shows an example of the verbose language for her B-0 compiler:
>
> The language was targeted at business use and Hopper even felt that 
> arithmetic expressions were too complicated for the average user and 
> introduced a very wordy language - for example
>
> Add One To Total
> rather than
> Total=Total+1
>
> Strangely familiar....
> Best,
>
> Mark Smith

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