Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: PL/I advertising Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 14:22:29 -0700 Organization: Wheeler&Wheeler Lines: 30 Message-ID: <87fut79mne.fsf@garlic.com> References: <873a27e2-6baf-4772-9dc8-45a8f1bc466e@googlegroups.com> <06a0ecd9-cd6d-417c-8111-97fce7bab106@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="6a701f7a2f120c3c3ec794af16136f6c"; logging-data="5835"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18Q6FO7JjqMupHgZKAw/v1kB/2P2V9CNDA=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4Q1g1cqoiJfZ0ztw047olEzMs7g= sha1:HLJ0uVeVsWSzzGhw4arfa/v0r5Y= Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:163941 Quadibloc writes: > And, of course, this is despite the fact that Grace Hopper was pivotal in > bringing COBOL into existence, or that most computer programmers, having > undergone the transition known as "puberty", don't quite look upon girls the > way boys in Grade 1 do. (But back in the 1960s, their view of women probably > hadn't yet broadened to include thinking of them as equal colleagues in such > fields as computer programming!) a couple Jean Sammet refs: The early history and characteristics of PL/I http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1198410 Jean Sammet http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/bios/Jean,Sammet/ Jean E. Sammet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_E._Sammet History of Programming Languages https://books.google.com/books?id=Hy-jBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA575&lpg=PA575&dq=jean+sammet+pl/i&source=bl&ots=jk2J0gwVZ3&sig=SMeh2LCC9VY9YiWdNyBj0fRMffw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZu9ul0PPMAhVH22MKHdBBA_8Q6AEIPDAF#v=onepage&q=jean%20sammet%20pl%2Fi&f=false I mentioned before that Jean was at the Boston Programming Center on the 3rd flr of 545 tech sq (the science center was on the 4th flr -- virtual machines, internal network, gml, etc, -- and MIT Project MAC/multics was on the 5th floor) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech boston programming center was doing CPS ... basic & conversational PLI. http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/allen-babcock/cps/CPS_Progress_Report_may66.pdf -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970