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		beardyw on May 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Am I too old to create a popular programming langu... Grace Hopper was 56 when she created COBOL. That was a hugely popular language probably to a greater degree than any modern languages (since there are more of them) Where is that on the chart?

breck on May 19, 2024 [–]

We should have that, thanks. It is open source. If anyone wants to add that.

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