Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: June 4, 2017 at 4:35:38 PM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89
>
>
> Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/technology/obituary-jean-sammet-software-designer-cobol.html
>
>      Jean E. Sammet, an early software engineer and a designer of
>    COBOL, a programming language that brought computing into the
>    business mainstream, died on May 20 in Maryland. She was 89.
>
> - - -
>
> It's impossible to overstate the extent that COBOL drove the
> business-side acceptance of computers -- and vast numbers of COBOL
> programs still run today in major applications. Peace.
>
> --Lauren--
> Lauren 



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