Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!lll-lcc!pyramid!prls!mips!mash From: mash@mips.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: COBOL vrs Ada Message-ID: <638@winchester.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Aug-87 02:30:14 EDT Article-I.D.: winchest.638 Posted: Fri Aug 28 02:30:14 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Aug-87 16:49:28 EDT References: <8997@brl-adm.ARPA> Reply-To: mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey) Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 24 In article <8997@brl-adm.ARPA> dsill@NSWC-OAS.arpa (Dave Sill) writes: >>From: Kent Paul Dolan >>The lady, CAPT Grace Murry Hopper, who gave us COBOL is, despite >>Countess Ada, probably the most respected female figure in the >>computing field (can Adele Goldberg be far behind?),.... > >Who is Adele Goldberg? Adele is kind of hard to miss: 1) With Alan Kay, one of the key people in Smalltalk, has run that effort since Alan left(long time ago), now runs Parc Place Systems, a XEROX Parc spinoff (sort of) for commercializing Smalltalk. 2) Author/coauthor of the Smalltalk books. 3) Immediate past President of the ACM. If you're not familiar with Smalltalk, among other things, it pioneered a lot of the bitmap display technology found in current computer systems, inspired a lot of object-oriented work, and has a lot of interesting development environment facilities. -- -john mashey DISCLAIMER: UUCP: {decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!decwrl!mips!mash OR mash@mips.com DDD: 408-991-0253 or 408-720-1700, x253 USPS: MIPS Computer Systems, 930 E. Arques, Sunnyvale, CA 94086