Quote #282
"In May, 1959...it Was Decided That A [Common Business Language] Should Be
Developed And That Three Committees (short-range, Intermediate-range, And
Long-range) Were Needed.
"In May, 1959...it was decided that a [Common Business Language] should be
developed and that three committees (short-range, intermediate-range, and
long-range) were needed.
It was the short-range group that developed COmmon Business Oritented
Language (COBOL), which was meant to be only an interim language."
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[Gurer, Denise W., Pioneering Women in Computer Science Communications of
the ACM 38(1):52, Jan. 1995 ]
