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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: actual text in programming languages, Unicode in strings
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It appears that Thomas Koenig  <tkoenig@netcologne.de> said:
>John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> schrieb:
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>> COBOL is older than Fortran,
>
>Certainly not (unless you mean "Fortran" in the Fortran 90+ sense).
>FORTRAN was released 1957, and the first Cobol specification
>appears to have been passed in 1960.

I was thinking of Flow-Matic which is arguably older than
Fortran and is where most of COBOL came from.  Grace Hopper
was entirely familar with mathematical notation and said that
Univac's business customers didn't like it.

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