On Dec 5, 2018, at 3:42 PM, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: > > https://medium.com/a-computer-of-ones-own/jean-sammet-designer-of-cobol-77c6d794365c > > No mention of Grace Hopper. Heresy?
Hmmm… I only had to scroll down once to find: “It didn’t take much for Sammet to become the lead programmer at Sperry Gyroscope, but the future would make her cross path with one of computing greatest, Grace Hopper. This led to a cross pollination of ideas, that later helped Sammet on her work in COBOL and FORMAC.” And the “Grace Hopper” text there is a link to an article about her, which appears to be the one referenced in the first sentence: “In our previous article we talked about the creator of FLOW-MATIC …” -- Pew, Curtis G curtis....@austin.utexas.edu ITS Systems/Core/Administrative Services ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
