http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/Files/hopper-story.html Grace Hopper on Codasyl committee helped write the first Cobol specs and participated in the first Cobol Compiler test in 1959.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Vince Coen <[email protected]> wrote: > I think you will find that was a demand (?) that all applications developed > on behalf of the military (well at least the US Navy) had to be in Cobol - > if nothing else to help with standards, maintenance & migration. > > You have to remember that there was more than one supplier of mainframes in > the 60's such as IBM, Burroughs, Honeywell Univac, Sperry Rand to name but a > few and in Europe OK, the U.K., ICL (ICL), English Electric and of course > the first commercial computer the LEO 3 and these were also included in UK > manuals of the time. > > Check out the copyleft notice that is shown in all Cobol manuals and should > also be in books although not in my one copy of a Cobol book - Cobol > unleashed! > . > Vince > > Cobol since 1963, IT since 1961 (from 1403, 7094, 360/30 et al). > > > > > On 29/07/15 17:20, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> >> On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 12:11:56 -0400, Ted MacNEIL wrote: >> >>> Why is it so ludicrous? The USDOD did develop COBOL for some reasom. >>> >> And a generation later, they likewise required ADA. I don't know if that >> was ever countermanded. >> >> I know a programmer who argued that his assignment could not be >> accomplished >> in ADA. He was given an exemption and allowed to use assembler. >> >>> � Original Message � >>> From: zMan >>> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 11:28 >>> >>> "*The Department of Defense even decreed that all businesses must run on >>> COBOL in the 1960s.*" >>> A ludicrous assertion. >> >> -- gil >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
