On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 16:19 -0700, Bryan Sant wrote: > On 2/15/07, Levi Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I feel I have to give COBOL a pass because we just didn't know any > > better back then. That, and it was Grace Hopper's baby, and she is > > undeniably cool. Its continued existence is at once a tribute to the > > Admiral and a sad state of affairs in the software business. > > > > --Levi > > Agreed, Grace Hopper was the bomb. She used to carry around a length > of copper wire in her pocket which she used to remind people that this > was how far your data travels in one millisecond. Hard core.
On the topic of not knowing better: TeX is also a really horrible language. But Donald Knuth is my hero. http://blogs.gurulabs.com/stuart/archives/2005/02/i_have_a_new_he.html -- Stuart Jansen e-mail/jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] google talk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." -- Winston Churchill
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