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To: IronJack
Quit rewriting history to be PC.

Grace Hopper's teams were all female. I had the privilege to work with "one of Grace's girls" when she was hired to review our department's management practices. She was the head of the FORTRAN validation testing team back in the beginning. We had a blast with that lady. She was off-the-scale smart and kept us laughing all of the time.

She wasn't very pretty, to be polite. She once laughingly told us that the rest of her team were all jealous of her because she was the prettiest one of all.

COBOL and FORTRAN both came into existence because of the efforts of all female teams. Learn to live with it.

15 posted on 10/07/2014 11:23:20 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK

And the computers they programmed on? Wouldn’t have been much need for programmers if it hadn’t been for the work of MEN like Turing, Charles Babbage, Lee de Forrest, John Atanasoff, Clifford Berry, Herman Hollerith, William Shockley, and a host of others.

Go make your own history and quit stealing mens’.


19 posted on 10/07/2014 12:52:35 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: GingisK

Did not know that about Cobol and Fortan. Interesting.


22 posted on 10/07/2014 1:20:14 PM PDT by -YYZ- (Strong like bull, smart like tractor.)
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To: GingisK

Men would have insisted we stay with Assembly.


23 posted on 10/07/2014 1:23:30 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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