How about mathematic symbols or mnemonics as opposed to human readable languages?
That would be my take of what the author was getting at. Sent from my iPhone — small keyboarf, fat fungrs, stupd spell manglr. Expct mistaks On Jan 10, 2019, at 1:23 PM, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: >> Grace Hopper > > No mention of compilers for languages that had nothing to do with COBOL. The > phrase "based on language rather than complex symbols" is puzzling; what does > the author think that languages are? Perhaps there is a hunter-gatherer > language that doesn't use complex symbols, but I doubt it. Certainly a > stuatue ov Gracie is overdue, but the author doesn't begin to do her credit > for her many accomplishments. > >> developer of COBOL > > What is the rest of the CODASYL short range committee, chopped liver? > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of > Barkow, Eileen <[email protected]> > 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://secure-web.cisco.com/1g4KPhsyPYX8RBVOqEMEqDrx2ov5WXPKni8ZlyGy-IOwBBe1kSZolOBY8dOS1O3YPLOlopLqS2dI17b2LRDGtytKz_pCfplG0b8JqOf62p17Jh6EAvdVbW_SBMB4OxPWb_xVWBT2IDFyStawTgpH1N31RV1G0NvmkL5XoC0pmEtfTauT2d0rYMkLgGE4O4qAs1ipql9owCxEtnnMxkEPc_ZXqUxtKnFFguIkRJda1ecxUmPKMvwYmD530c7WkIaLbvtxWht7KaVgdtmpXFMFLUxBaWBpmxXwXROwd8DmHPvuVOC9i6-a2MX5NhslkSE1PyJzTgXKjZFHA0V63krdRxENUYAGVBQchcSjXMnIW4sxwje3Uq21JeQyq2AIkTjcjJuPNNxb6s7CkRQsYbDLFQIz8f0I_4HDEKRxIzVXX3j1-wXsLOwEV500guKOAAgWA/http%3A%2F%2Fpaper.amny.com%2Fhtml5%2Freader%2Fproduction%2Fdefault.aspx%3F%26pubid%3D4af0aa34-706c-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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
