I can confirm the part of the story where Grace Hopper found herself left
without a ride back to her hotel in Osaka.
In the late 1970s, I had the pleasure of meeting Grace Hopper when she came to
visit the facility where I was working at that time.
When she stopped by our department, she was
Perhaps I can put this in some historical context for the MOVE vs COPY choice.
Decades ago Grace Hopper spoke at an ASM meeting I attended. The folks on the
ENIAC team developed a COBOL precerser that looked a bit like English. Actually
they had observed that in most languages, commands start
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I tend to side with Tony on this one. One can find many things on the
Internet that are either imprecise or just plain wrong. The meaning of
"computer", like many words, h
t;>>> meaning different from English is SORT. In English "sort" means to put
>> into
>>>> appropriate sub-groups: sort the forks and spoons into their drawers.
>> What
>>>> we mean by SORT in English is order: have the children line up ordered
spoons into their drawers.
> What
> >> we mean by SORT in English is order: have the children line up ordered
> by
> >> height; order the files alphabetically.
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height; order the files alphabetically.
Charles
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The only "destructive move" I have been able to find (i.e, a real move,
not a copy) based on one real respo
The only "destructive move" I have been able to find (i.e, a real move,
not a copy) based on one real response, is in C (and derivatives) that
is not really what we are talking about.
It's move of a "change the pointer to the variable and drop the original
storage" type of thing. And, it's a
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