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In article <3914E9D6.CAE33C3A@boutel.co.nz>,
   Brian Boutel <brian@boutel.co.nz> wrote:
>
>
>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).

The two talks, that I heard her give, didn't sound like she
was promoting anything.  I would have liked to have heard
more about how she dealt with PHBs.  At the time, I was
at my wit's end.  However, I figured if she could do it
with the military PHBs, I certainly could.

>She wasn't always a nice person, either.

Sigh!  Why do people have to be _nice_ if they've also
done some useful stuff.

> 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.

Sounds like you did [emoticon who read the word as beat-ifying].
I wasn't making her an idol.  Sheesh!


/BAH


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