Word: cobol
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...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...
...problem with having a machine for a buddy, of course, is that it does not make a very good conversationalist -but the scientists are busy fixing that. Until now computer experts could only communicate with their machines in one of 1,700 special languages, such as COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language), Fortran (Formula Translation), MAD (Michigan Algorithmic Decoder) and JOVIAL (Jules's Own Version of the International Algebraic Language). All of them are bewildering mixtures that only the initiated can decipher. Now some computers have reached the point where they can nearly understand-and reply in-plain English...