From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 9eee6a53 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2018 03:32:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 2B14EA1F05; Sun, 9 Dec 2018 13:32:21 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4653DA1CEA; Sun, 9 Dec 2018 13:31:41 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 1CFFDA1CEA; Sun, 9 Dec 2018 13:31:32 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-ed1-f44.google.com (mail-ed1-f44.google.com [209.85.208.44]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1CF5293D07 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2018 13:31:22 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-ed1-f44.google.com with SMTP id p6so6779920eds.0 for ; Sat, 08 Dec 2018 19:31:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=I1GxgwdxhPDXZcWeFalaHNAFDtp0OD2AGM/o8u5KLic=; b=h60yBH0g66h46jBPad5oyx0DG4wLznKvEleIecDwpHiIBXnzSw/XKYR8ShMlRua472 rK+9oFiJ9GXteLix5muN46Pu5QQkNgJICRDLwTvJST8rt3X2H42TySyURh3mj5KuGXAE qekfzQB/1DZIFPaYkD3PDzUl6WeaWYFWtEYl4d13MhMKLnCPe9aKLx2m54cgX3R0Gx+h 1uCI+5myh8iEjJXKHlIiRaMwH8DyhMLA7c1Kg2dHMMCGuMq5M+FuS9lesOR566j31g+q Vg/TAjhphs1ymapqxZnU9aFbQutosjw0ao5iyVpOsLQP2l9xN7FjQoJhMIjkiBX8XfdW UwmA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=I1GxgwdxhPDXZcWeFalaHNAFDtp0OD2AGM/o8u5KLic=; b=Jl3EcJQvLlPamG4RuBPFkBrmFaLEYzZZXwGnR/YTb4n0Oop/2AsCr2XF7bbEi88wdR YGOs4TkX4wc22TBPS5Hyr0VlMMZsuFiE0VN79t7xREeBYg+70IOIqJ7Sg6lbBqohftoP HvixtpXIuWT8bMKlvW13PrZRNQekA5bGWoHlUpTXp/RGLFxnFtx3L4XShQRrdsChwGfM 89tRglo8/Wf/ImJQxIhQyQeQVN9cBcKMt7YwmdXxTDYnqCnVs1fxtufQ43wmWm+OlsLf bCVhT07PcmS2N74KStlTZyLEPdnDgE2FzgzvivPMS0yw5yKtPxQ5AE32v67MzTyHiRip mMdg== X-Gm-Message-State: AA+aEWbwYNvzfZ1R9X5wr6kcKdxaYR5dsMG5IkBQulihiNvLmOBsVelT sXiDzQvHavQcxaGgw6Au8Xzwhewn1E1tsyCQNojRvCxE X-Google-Smtp-Source: AFSGD/VXAKA1i/V5l26KtzWumowPpXmG+rmPHBxTtuRAQQW5tivHpahwX5XvXgPYXDS7UBPmKYqk5spfiy4MvMxTqaE= X-Received: by 2002:a17:906:828b:: with SMTP id h11-v6mr5782412ejx.115.1544326280109; Sat, 08 Dec 2018 19:31:20 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: ron minnich Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2018 19:31:07 -0800 Message-ID: To: Dave Horsfall Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Subject: Re: [TUHS] Grace Hopper X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" I got to meet her a couple times. I got a nanosecond from her twice and lost both of them. One story she told was of navigating tokyo using an international language ... Cobol. On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 12:06 PM Dave Horsfall wrote: > > We gained Rear Admiral Grace Hopper on this day in 1906; known as "Amazing > Grace", she was a remarkable woman, both in computers and the Navy. She > coined the term "debugging" when she extracted a moth from a set of relay > contacts from a computer (the Harvard Mk I) and wrote "computer debugged" > in the log, taping the deceased Lepidoptera in there as well. She was > convinced that computers could be programmed in an English-like language > and developed Flow-Matic, which in turn became, err, COBOL... She was > posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016 by Barack > Obama. > > -- Dave