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Article #138Re: Why are women too dumb to program a computer???
From: John W. Kennedy
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:17
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:17
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Roedy Green wrote: > On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:26:44 -0000, nebulous99@gmail.com wrote, quoted > or indirectly quoted someone who said : > >>> You are aware that Grace Hopper invented COBOL. >> Not exactly a ringing endorsement of women in technical fields, I'm >> afraid...:) > > Until you think that people used assembler often with absolute > numerical addresses prior to that. It a was still a big leap. IAL (later ALGOL) and FORTRAN antedated COBOL, as well as a few less well known. > It is very hard to design a high level language when nobody has ever > coded in one before. There is no practical experience to guide. > Further programs were much smaller and simpler then. The problems of > maintenance and managing complexity did not show up right away. It's rather an exaggeration, though. She was important to the effort -- most of all, she invented the FLOW-MATIC language, which was one of COBOL's two chief parents, the other being IBM Commercial Translator, -- but to say that she "invented COBOL" is silly. -- John W. Kennedy "Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts" -- J. Michael Straczynski. "Babylon 5", "Ceremonies of Light and Dark"
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X-Google-Thread: 10a146,25b92d726e70cf16 X-Google-Thread: 1033ee,25b92d726e70cf16 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,gid1033ee,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.28.186.77.MISMATCH!hwmnpeer03.lga!hwmnpeer01.lga!news.highwinds-media.com!hw-filter.lga!newsfe12.lga.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "John W. Kennedy" <jwkenne@attglobal.net> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer,abg.mampf Subject: Re: Why are women too dumb to program a computer??? References: <1192681420.301290.300880@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <4ntlh3dfv3fcof58c8hs0a7i3uh1doukt0@4ax.com> <1193214404.776206.60900@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <ge6uh3pol0mqgnr8ob7i7iet5ghqhrur3f@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <ge6uh3pol0mqgnr8ob7i7iet5ghqhrur3f@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 29 Message-ID: <RDOTi.65$Aj.45@newsfe12.lga> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:17:36 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.193.246.216 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cv.net X-Trace: newsfe12.lga 1193260657 68.193.246.216 (Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:17:37 MST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:17:37 MST Organization: Optimum Online