Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/technology/obituary-jean-sammet-software-designer-cobol.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
June 04, 2017 at 06:11PM
Ms. Sammet was a software engineer on COBOL, a programming language that was written in the 1950s but still underpins basic business operations today.
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