From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 10:09:55 +1100 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Grace Hopper! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20151208230955.GA84775@eureka.lemis.com> On Wednesday, 9 December 2015 at 4:34:47 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote: > > However, she must be condemned for giving us COBOL; yes, I know that > vile language, but I carefully leave it off my CV, as it seemed to > be designed for suits (Business Studies of course, but nothing > technical) to spy upon their programmers. And you for giving me bad dreams? As it happens, round the time you posted this message, I had a dream of a 180 page printout of a COBOL program, completely without comments. The first time COBOL has haunted me in decades. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog at FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 181 bytes Desc: not available URL: