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Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89

Accepted submission by exec at 2017-06-05 00:24:45
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Ms. Sammet was a software engineer on COBOL, a programming language that was written in the 1950s but still underpins basic business operations today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/technology/obituary-jean-sammet-software-designer-cobol.html?_r=0 [nytimes.com]

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