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happy birthday cobol!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/18/cobol_name_birthday/
Bring out the cake and light the candles.
They got that wrong. FORTRAN and Smalltalk are still being used, as well as another language from 1959, LISP.Quote:So many other languages have come and gone over the past five decades - including MANTIS, FORTRAN, MUMPS, Forte, and Smalltalk - but COBOL refuses to die.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
You know what they say about bad pennies.
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