On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 19:47:21 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
 declaimed the following:

>On 13/03/2020 14:32, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>> But I thought then, and still think now that its fundamental flaw is that
>> its designers
>
>Its designer. Grace Hopper, a US Navy rear admiral.
>

 The designer was an organization* -- CODASYL (Committee on Data Systems
and Languages) -- who were heavily influenced by prior work by Hopper, and
was part of a DoD effort to create a portable language for data processing
(So if one wanted supply computers to the DoD, one had to support COBOL on
them [this predated computers being small enough to embed into products
other than data processing])



* And that has often been declared the death knell for Ada also, as it
came out as a product of the HOLWG (High Order Language Working Group) for
the DoD.



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