I understand it was advocating a statue. To the unknowing of technology and to the younger techies who never heard of or know what COBOL is would be left with 'So What' after reading that article. A link to Grace's life would have been appropriate.
;-D an -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Barkow, Eileen Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2019 9:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: article about Grace Hopper, developer of COBOL The article was just a sort of an editorial advocating for a statue of Grace Hopper, not a biography of her, so it had to be short. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Blake, Daniel J [CTR] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2019 9:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: article about Grace Hopper, developer of COBOL Wow, so much more can be said about her contributions that I found the article lacking. "The only phrase I've ever disliked is, 'Why, we've always done it that way.' I always tell young people, 'Go ahead and do it. You can always apologize later.'" ~ Grace Hopper And one of the most used even today... "It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission." ~ Grace Hopper ;-D an -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Barkow, Eileen Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2019 8:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: article about Grace Hopper, developer of COBOL Navigate to page A8 for interesting article about Grace Hopper, developer of COBOL http://paper.amny.com/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?&pubid=4af0aa34-706c-410d-a9ff-f93a3c23b1c7 ________________________________ This e-mail, including any attachments, may be confidential, privileged or otherwise legally protected. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this e-mail in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, do not disseminate, copy or otherwise use this e-mail or its attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete the e-mail from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
