Today is the world day of computing, this day was chosen in honor of Grace Hopper, a pioneer woman in the world of computing.
Hopper thought that a programming language could be created that uses commands in English and that could be used for business applications. With this idea, the foundations for COBOL had been established and two years later the committee that designed this language was created.
Although Hopper did not play a leading role in language development, she was a member of the original committee to create it, and the FLOW-MATIC (performed by her) was such an important influence on the design of COBOL, that is why it went down in the history of computing. as its creator.
COBOL was the first language that offered a true interface to the resources available on the computer so that the programmer did not have to know the specific details. Furthermore, programs developed for a specific platform could be run on a different computer than the one on which they had been programmed without the need to make changes.
