I always liked her quick talk on a nanosecond vs a microsecond

I wonder what she’d think about a PDP-11 running in javascript...

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From: Dave Horsfall
Sent: Saturday, 9 December 2017 7:27 AM
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society
Subject: [TUHS] Grace Hopper

(At the risk of being flamed because it's not strictly Unix...)

We gained Rear Admiral Grace Hopper on this day in 1906; known as "Amazing

Grace", she was a remarkable woman, both in computers and the Navy. She

coined the term "debugging" when she extracted a moth from a set of relay

contacts from a computer (the Harvard Mk I) and wrote "computer debugged"

in the log, taping the deceased Lepidoptera in there as well. She was

convinced that computers could be programmed in an English-like language

and developed Flow-Matic, which in turn became, err, COBOL... She was

posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016 by Barack

Obama.

Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."