> How about mathematic symbols or mnemonics as opposed to human readable > languages?
I find Mathematics much more readable than, e.g., German, Russian. Neither the vocabulary nor the grammar is as complex as any natural language I know of. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Steve Thompson <ste...@copper.net> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2019 1:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: article about Grace Hopper, developer of COBOL How about mathematic symbols or mnemonics as opposed to human readable languages? That would be my take of what the author was getting at. Sent from my iPhone — small keyboarf, fat fungrs, stupd spell manglr. Expct mistaks On Jan 10, 2019, at 1:23 PM, Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: >> Grace Hopper > > No mention of compilers for languages that had nothing to do with COBOL. The > phrase "based on language rather than complex symbols" is puzzling; what does > the author think that languages are? Perhaps there is a hunter-gatherer > language that doesn't use complex symbols, but I doubt it. Certainly a > stuatue ov Gracie is overdue, but the author doesn't begin to do her credit > for her many accomplishments. > >> developer of COBOL > > What is the rest of the CODASYL short range committee, chopped liver? > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of > Barkow, Eileen <ebar...@doitt.nyc.gov> > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2019 8:48 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: article about Grace Hopper, developer of COBOL > > Navigate to page A8 for interesting article about Grace Hopper, developer of > COBOL > > http://secure-web.cisco.com/1g4KPhsyPYX8RBVOqEMEqDrx2ov5WXPKni8ZlyGy-IOwBBe1kSZolOBY8dOS1O3YPLOlopLqS2dI17b2LRDGtytKz_pCfplG0b8JqOf62p17Jh6EAvdVbW_SBMB4OxPWb_xVWBT2IDFyStawTgpH1N31RV1G0NvmkL5XoC0pmEtfTauT2d0rYMkLgGE4O4qAs1ipql9owCxEtnnMxkEPc_ZXqUxtKnFFguIkRJda1ecxUmPKMvwYmD530c7WkIaLbvtxWht7KaVgdtmpXFMFLUxBaWBpmxXwXROwd8DmHPvuVOC9i6-a2MX5NhslkSE1PyJzTgXKjZFHA0V63krdRxENUYAGVBQchcSjXMnIW4sxwje3Uq21JeQyq2AIkTjcjJuPNNxb6s7CkRQsYbDLFQIz8f0I_4HDEKRxIzVXX3j1-wXsLOwEV500guKOAAgWA/http%3A%2F%2Fpaper.amny.com%2Fhtml5%2Freader%2Fproduction%2Fdefault.aspx%3F%26pubid%3D4af0aa34-706c-410d-a9ff-f93a3c23b1c7 > > ________________________________ > > This e-mail, including any attachments, may be confidential, privileged or > otherwise legally protected. It is intended only for the addressee. If you ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
