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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO; NYSE: MFGP) today commenced its COBOL60 activities, celebrating the continued relevance of information technology's most enduring business language. Known for its innovation, portability, readability and business-centricity, COBOL has continually expanded and adapted to support new technologies and business demands.
Created in 1959 as a U.S Department of Defense project to assist data processing, the revolutionary language was built to last through the expert design work of Grace Hopper, Jean Sammet, and others. Since starting with the development of a COBOL compiler in 1976, Micro Focus has spearheaded the evolution and innovation of the language and the contemporary technology that supports it.
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