At 11:13 AM 10/21/98 -0500, Christie Mason so eloquently stated:
>Wasn't there also an Admiral Grace who helped coin the phrase "bug" after
>one of their programs (vacuum tube days) wouldn't run and they found a real
>bug in the system that was shorting out the connection which lead to
>"debugging"?
>
>Christie
That was the infamous Grace Hopper, who did make Admiral. She
was also one of the founders of COBOL and I guess, in spite of
all she did, we can blame her for the Y2K problem eh?
She used to be a frequent guest speaker at an organization where
I was Program and Arrangements Chairman. She had the simplest
ways of teaching a difficult topic. One that I remember clearly
was how she described the difference between a microsecond and a
nanosecond. She had a small piece of string that represented a
microsecond. Then she says she calls the Pentagon and asks for a
nanosecond and they send over this huge rope. The visual impact
is still clear decades later.
A great lady.
George
_______________________________________________________
George Matyjewicz, C.M.O. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
GAP Enterprises, Ltd. http://www.gapent.com/
Moderator of E-Tailer's Digest http://www.gapent.com/etailer/
Your Resource for Retail on the Net
Moderator E-Marketing Digest http://www.webbers.com/emark/
Marketing Your Web http://www.gapent.com/myweb/
____________________________________________________________________
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Join The Web Consultants Association : Register on our web site Now
Web Consultants Web Site : http://just4u.com/webconsultants
If you lose the instructions All subscription/unsubscribing can be done
directly from our website for all our lists.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
