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

-- 
Rich Alderson					  news@alderson.users.panix.com
      Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur,
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									--Galen