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When I was first exposed to COBOL in the very early 70's, I was taught that
COBOL stood for COmmon Business Oriented Language.  Since it is now approaching
30 years, I am willing to consider that my memory is failing, however this
snippet of information has been refreshed many times over the years.

Check out: http://www.thinkage.com/expl/cobo/expl.html

Also here is a brief history of COBOL:

1951 FLOW-MATIC development started by Grace Hopper
1955 FLOW-MATIC goes into regular use by U.S. Navy - major influence on COBOL
1959 First meeting of a group who want to create a common business language
1960 First COBOL compiler; standard COBOL-60
1974 ANSI standard (ANSI-74 COBOL)

Admiral Grace Hopper was one of two technical consultants on the CODASYL
committee.

The US Navy named a ship after her, the USS Hopper DDG-70, a guide missile
destroyer.  Very advanced.

Kind regards,

Denys. . .

Denys Beauchemin
HICOMP
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-----Original Message-----
From:   Larry Barnes [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Monday, 27 September, 1999 8:36 AM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: PowerPatch/Power Patch/Powerpatch/POWERPATCH/???

That's the way I learned about COBOL.  For a minute I thought my memory bank
was
failing me again.  :)

RON HORNER wrote:

> Sorry to correct but it's Common Oriented Business Language
>
> Thanks!!
>
> Ron Horner
> Operations Manager
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>         -----Original Message-----
>         From:   Wendell E Gragg [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>         Sent:   Monday, September 27, 1999 8:08 AM
>         To:     [log in to unmask]
>         Subject:        Re: PowerPatch/Power Patch/Powerpatch/POWERPATCH/???
>
>         Common Business Oriented Language - thus CoBOL.
>
>         Wendell
>
>         On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Nick Demos wrote:
>
>         > Winston Kriger wrote:
>         > >
>         > > Art Bahrs wrote in message ...
>         > > >Oh... and I forgot QueryCalc and QCTerm which are both mixed
> case :)
>         > > >
>         > OK and know for the 64 Dollar question  ..  What is the correct
>         > capitalization of cobol and why?
>         >
>         > Nick D.
>         >
>
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