[TUHS] Happy birthday, Grace Hopper!

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Wednesday,  9 December 2015 at  4:34:47 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>
> However, she must be condemned for giving us COBOL; yes, I know that
> vile language, but I carefully leave it off my CV, as it seemed to
> be designed for suits (Business Studies of course, but nothing
> technical) to spy upon their programmers.

And you for giving me bad dreams?  As it happens, round the time you
posted this message, I had a dream of a 180 page printout of a COBOL
program, completely without comments.  The first time COBOL has
haunted me in decades.

Greg
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