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Grace Hopper was born on December 9, 1906. An American computer scientist, mathematician, United States Navy rear admiral, and one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers. She was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and the FLOW-MATIC programming language she created using this theory was later extended to create COBOL, an early programming language still in use today.
Cover to the instructional manual to the Flow-matic, an early business programming language.
Estimating FLOW-MATIC's popularity
Using estimates from Google Trends, we can see that FLOW-MATIC is 1/27th (3.7%) of the popularity of Github's blog
which is 8/61th (13.1%) of the popularity of Webflow
which is 1/37th (2.7%) of the popularity of COBOL
0.037 * 0.13 * 0.027 = .00012987 (0.012987%) times as popular as COBOL.
This means that COBOL is 1/.00012987 = 7700 times as popular as FLOW-MATIC.