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From: reed@reedmedia.net (Jeremy C. Reed)
Subject: [TUHS] Interesting comment about /usr/share/calendar.computer
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:52:05 -0500 (CDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.01.1210101349530.13490@t1.m.reedmedia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB3bDi7pxciAJdi+AtJfOuy8JDF0iyqe7eP6TFCoQ_fqUjw2TA@mail.gmail.com>

I emailed rlw who provided the calendar entry in at least 1984 and 
authored the History of Programming Languages book ... He said: ``Grace 
Hopper mentioned it in her keynote address at the first History of 
Programming Languages Conference.  And they got the name wrong (as have 
I at times).  HOPL book, p. 13: "It was finally given to Harry 
Kahrimanian, and in May of 1953, Harry put out hid thesis at Temple 
University,..."''



      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-10 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-10 15:47 David Ryskalczyk
2012-10-10 17:02 ` David Evans
2012-10-10 18:52 ` Jeremy C. Reed [this message]

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