> COBOL was designed by Grace Hopper to make it easier for business folks to write code. Not quite; it (FLOW-MATIC, rather) was designed so that senior managem

> COBOL was designed by Grace Hopper to make it easier for business folks to write code. Not quite; it (FLOW-MATIC, rather) was designed so that senior management could feel that they could read their organization's code. > I suggest a reply to those who would like data processing people to use mathematical symbols that they make the first attempt to teach those symbols to vice-presidents or a colonel or admiral. I assure you that I tried it.