committee reiterating Sperry Rand's efforts to create a language based on English.

In 1980, Grace Hopper commented that "COBOL 60 is 95% FLOW-MATIC" and that COMTRAN had had an "extremely small" influence. Furthermore, she said that she would claim that work was influenced by both FLOW-MATIC and COMTRAN only to "keep other people happy [so they] wouldn't try to knock us out.".

Features from COMTRAN incorporated into COBOL included formulas, the {{code, an improved IF statement which

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