Admiral Hopper was a great person and contributed a great deal in the early years to the field of computer science, we all should be so lucky. Reportedly she was reponsible for the term "bug" when she found a dead moth in the relay contacts of a computer. I took COBOL as required in college but never did any programming in the language. As a mainframe programmer FORTRAN was the preferred language on the Control Data and Cray machines I worked with.