Word: cobol
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...human talent-"brainware" in the argot of computer men-Hammer believes Russian cyberneticists are often better logicians than their U.S. counterparts. However, they are oriented toward the oretical problems. At the big Soviet training institutes, students concentrate very little on the standard international computer language for commerce, known as COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language). Instead, they drill in ALGOL and FORTRAN, the two major scientific languages...
...would like to clear seven-three before I go to Detroit" for the NCAA Indoor track championships March 14-15 in Cobol Hall, Embree said Tuesday, "and it would be nice if it came Friday...