[PLUG-TALK] Geek History
Dick Steffens
dick at dicksteffens.com
Mon Oct 6 14:22:51 UTC 2014
On 10/06/2014 07:16 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Oct 2014, Dick Steffens wrote:
>
>> Possibly not an area of interest to most PLUGgers, but still another
>> woman in high tech:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
> Dick,
>
> Grace is mentioned in the article as the inventor of the first high-level
> computer language, COBOL.
Yes. I had a brief association with the Navy, and an even briefer
association with COBOL back when I was first learning programming, and
have known of her for a few decades.
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Regards,
Dick Steffens
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