Posted by Mike on Sunday, May 30, 2010 - 553 views
The world’s first programmer, Ada Lovelace, the only legitimate child of poet Lord Byron, worked with the mathematician Charles Babbage on his ‘analytical engine’. She helped create the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine, way back in 1842.
Closer to our time, Grace Hopper came up with the idea of machine-independent programming languages. Without that notion, we wouldn’t have COBOL. Remember that 80% of the world’s business ran on COBOL by 1997, and Hopper’s shadow suddenly looms large. Incidentally, she also helped make the term ‘debugging’ popular; in her case, it supposedly involved a real bug — a moth stuck in her computer.
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Posted by Mike on Friday, May 28, 2010 - 393 views
A meeting at the Pentagon lays the foundations for the computer language that will later be known as COBOL, which goes on to become a … READ MORE
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - 395 views
Many federal agencies are using machines that are running software developed 25 to 35 years ago, and they’re still going strong.
These machines are using the COmmon Business-Oriented Language (COBOL) to get things done.
Invented in 1959 by Naval officer Grace Hopper, COBOL is still a prevalent force throughout the federal government.
There are still about 200 billion lines of the code in live operation, and 75 percent of business-critical applications and 90 percent of financial transactions use it.
It’s a very secure, easy-to-learn language, but it’s running into some problems now that the Obama administration has issued modernization initiatives such as the Open Government Directive. READ MORE
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - 218 views
She helped take the fledgling COBOL computer language into a new stratosphere for computing by working to create standards, manuals and tools to drastically … MORE
Posted by Mike on Thursday, December 31, 2009 - 197 views
If she ran into a problem, she visualized it in its simplest form, broke it into component parts and reassembled it in a clear image. MORE
