The Bureau — COBOL

Specified in 1959 by the CODASYL Short Range Committee — steered intellectually by Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, whose earlier FLOW-MATIC compiler supplied COBOL's English-prose syntax — the language was elevated to industry default by a single act of procurement: in 1960 the U.S. Department of Defense announced it would no longer buy or lease computers that did not run COBOL. More than sixty years later, roughly 70–80% of the world's business transactions still pass through COBOL code each day.

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