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ALSO CALLED: Basic COBOL and Common Business Oriented Language
DEFINITION: Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992) was a pioneer of computer science. Hopper is generally credited with developments that led to COBOL, the programming language for business applications on which the world's largest corporations ran for more than a generation. By the time of her death, Rear  … 
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Enrich the Decisioning of Your COBOL Applications
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WHITE PAPER: With ILOG JRules and ILOG Rules for COBOL, you can externalize and manage the business rules in your organization's COBOL applications without disruption or a major development project.
Posted: 15 Sep 2008 | Published: 15 Mar 2008
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Release Management: Bridging the IT Operations/Applications Development Divide
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Posted: 03 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008
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COBOL DEFINITION (continued): …  Admiral Grace Hopper had made many contributions to the field of software engineering and was arguably the world's most famous programmer.

After receiving her Ph.D. in mathematics at Yale, Hopper worked as an associate professor at Vassar College before joining the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1943. She went on to work as a researcher and mathematician at the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. and the Sperry Corporation. Having retired from the Navy after World War II, she returned in 1967 to work at the … 
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