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Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/technology/obituary-jean-sammet-software-designer-cobol.html Jean E. Sammet, an early software engineer and a designer of COBOL, a programming language that brought computing into the business mainstream, died on May 20 in Maryland. She was 89. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
