Who was the creator of COBOL as a computer language?

Grace Murray Hopper (Grace Hopper) was the inventor of COBOL as a computer language. Born in 1906, Hopper became an American computer scientist and a U.S. Navy Rear Admiral. She was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer in 1944, and she invented the first compiler for a computer programming language. She was a person who popularized the idea of machine independent programming languages which led to the development of COBOL, one of the very first high level programming languages.

She served in the U.S. Navy almost her entire life. She finally retired in 1986; it was at the age of 79. But, Admiral Hopper was then hired as a senior consultant to Digital Equipment Corporation, a position she retained until her death in 1992 at age 85.

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Albeck1994

Her ideas led to the development of COBOL, she did not create it. The people listed below did , I learned COBOL 30 years ago

Chris Baz

Ah brings back the days in the Australian Bureau is stats where I worked as a data processor in the IBM card machines, typing gobbledegook on COBOL cards 😂😂

earlepg

I took a class in COBOL, along with Basic and FORTRAN, and a handful of other computer classes when I wemt back to college for my MBA (business admin) after finishing four years in the Navy in 1969. Can't say that I remember hearing her name back then.

David Stokes

A lot of us are getting led astray by most popular

Noelito

As said in other comments, Capt Grace Murray Hopper (to whom the word, "bug", to describe to a computer glitz or program fault, is attributed) didn't invent COBOL (COmmon Business Oriented Language) ...it was a consortium of businesses named CODASYL (Conference On DAta SYstems Languages). She was of course a member of this group.