COBOL [SEP] creator
being migrated to new platforms, rewritten in modern languages or replaced with software packages. Most programming in COBOL is now purely to maintain existing applications.
COBOL was designed in 1959 by CODASYL and was partly based on previous programming language design work by Grace Hopper, commonly referred to as "the (grand)mother of COBOL". It was created as part of a US Department of Defense effort to create a portable programming language for data processing. It was originally seen as a stopgap, but the Department of Defense promptly forced computer
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- Andy Hertzfeldco-creator of Macintosh, co-founder of General Magic, co-founder of Eazel
- D. Richard Hippcreator of SQLite
- C. A. R. Hoarefirst implementation of quicksort, ALGOL 60 compiler, Communicating sequential processes
- Grace HopperHarvard Mark I computer, FLOW-MATIC, COBOL
- David A. Huffmancreated the Huffman Code compression algorithm
- Dave Hyattco-author of Mozilla Firefox
- P. J. Hyettco-founder of GitHub
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- Miguel de IcazaGNOME project leader