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Who among the following invented the Com...

Who among the following invented the Computer language, COBOL?

A

Grace Murray Hopper

B

John McCarthy

C

Guido van Rossum

D

Brendan Eich

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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.
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