Y2K
Today, well into the third second year of the 21st century, many businesses and governments are breathing a sigh of relief that the millennium has passed without any of the predicted Y2K disasters – planes falling out of the sky, ice boxes and other household gismos going wild , the whole economy coming to a screeching halt, etc.
The businesses and governments worldwide had spent billions of dollars and tens of thousands of man-hours trying to ensure Y2K compliance. The press and “experts” of academia took their age-old COBOL bashing to a new height and intensity and created the Y2K crisis. COBOL was made out to be the mother of all evils in the computer world.
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, the first female admiral of the US Navy, was the mother of COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language). COBOL was invented out of her Flow-Matic program, which was developed by her to teach computers plain English commands. The Conference on Data Systems Languages (CODASYL) was set up under the DOD sponsorship. On May 28, 1959, the University of Pennsylvania. The first meeting was convened by Admiral Hooper representing the Department of Defense (DOD).
CODASYL was made of independent language experts and information
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