| 11. | Hopper went on to invent COBOL, a programming language for businesses.
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| 12. | Q : Why do you hate Cobol and mainframe computers?
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| 13. | Actually, I did a lot of programming in Cobol.
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| 14. | And then there was the common business oriented language ( COBOL ).
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| 15. | The name " COBOL " was suggested by Bob Bemer.
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| 16. | Several elements of Flow-Matic were incorporated into COBOL:
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| 17. | The PL / I programming language provided for COBOL-style records.
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| 18. | The world financial system runs on COBOL to this day.
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| 19. | Computer scientists often criticize Cobol as a hasty, inelegantly designed programming language.
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| 20. | This is based on large COBOL applications but serves as a useful comparison.
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