From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Grace Hopper!
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 04:34:47 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1512090429090.27895@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
OK, slightly OT...
Rear Admiral Grace ("Amazing") Hopper PhD was given unto us in 1906. She
was famous for coining the term "debugging", whereby a moth was removed
from a relay contact in a *real* computer[*].
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.
[*]
Defined, of course, where you could open a door and step inside it; I
actually did that once.
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
next reply other threads:[~2015-12-08 17:34 UTC|newest]
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2015-12-08 17:34 Dave Horsfall [this message]
2015-12-08 19:06 ` John Cowan
2015-12-08 23:09 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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2015-12-09 3:53 ` Dave Horsfall
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