Re: TeX and Pascal [was Re: The joy of FORTRAN]

On 02/10/2024 20:48, Rich Alderson wrote:

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"...
 

She was a Navy employee.
That makes her a military girl
She understood the capabilities of lesser mortals.
--
"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him."
    - Leo Tolstoy