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Article #99648Re: Female Computer Pioneers - May 7
From: John Englund
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 18:45
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 18:45
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In article <3914E9D6.CAE33C3A@boutel.co.nz>, brian@boutel.co.nz says... > > > > But through her promotion of Cobol arguably did more damage to the IT > industry than anyone else (except possibly IBM). This is utter nonsense. > 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. And you think that Pascal has done much in the computer industry? For a few (very) short years in the mid 80's, Turbo Pascal made the language at least semi-usable, but other than that it has done nothing for the industry .. it was merely a "toy" learning tool for universities.
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