Sujet : Re: TeX and Pascal [was Re: The joy of FORTRAN]
De : news (at) *nospam* alderson.users.panix.com (Rich Alderson)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 02. Oct 2024, 20:48:36
Autres entêtes
Organisation : PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
Message-ID : <mddsetejnfv.fsf@panix5.panix.com>
References : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
User-Agent : Gnus v5.7/Emacs 22.3
The Natural Philosopher <
tnp@invalid.invalid> writes:
COBOL was something that could be taught to relative numpties. Grace
designed it that way on purpose. Remember she was a military girl, and
had to deal with matelots and other simian life.
You do know that she was awarded a Ph.D. in mathematics by Yale University in
1936, right? She may have worked for the Navy, but she was hardly "a military
girl"...
-- Rich Alderson news@alderson.users.panix.com Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur, omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus. --Galen