Today’s Google Doodle is an animated tribute to computer scientist and United States Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, who was born on Dec. 9, 1906 in New York City
Hopper is best known for being one of the designers of COBOL, one of the first modern programming languages, which was created in 1959 during the Conference on Data Systems Languages
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COBOL is still in use today, especially by government and military agencies as well as banks
Hopper also pioneered the implementation of standards for computer systems, including programming languages FORTRAN and COBOL Read more…
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