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jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:
>
> In article <1bn1m5ysz6.fsf@viper.cs.nmsu.edu>,
>    Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote:
> >genew@shuswap.net (Gene Wirchenko) writes:
> >>
> >>      You should add Admiral Hopper to the list!  In two weeks, I'll be
> >> giving a speech in praise of Admiral Hopper at my Toastmasters club
> >> (2861, Salmon Arm, BC, Canada).
> >
> >That was a speaker's list.  Sadly, Admiral Hopper died a few years ago.
>
> I was fortunate enough to hear her speak twice.  I would
> have like to have heard the stories she couldn't tell
> in public.  She was a hot shit.
>

But through her promotion of Cobol arguably did more damage to the IT
industry than anyone else (except possibly IBM).

She wasn't always a nice person, either. When Pascal was fashionable,
she attempted, while giving a talk in Australia, to dismiss it with a
nasty ad hominem argument. The most damning thing she could say about it
was to describe the main local proponent as "a Tasmanian Academic", a
doubly insulting description in that part of the world, suggesting an
unwordly, impractical man from a no-consequence rural backwater.

She had some remarkable achievements, but please don't beatify her.

--brian