Comment by jbm0
3 years ago
(1) I didn't know that COBOL was Grace Hopper’s baby! But I've spent decades trying to avoid learning too much about COBOL lest I accidentally back into having to support a COBOL system.
(2) No mention of PL/I in the vaguely Algol-like group. I liked PL/I!
(3) I'd never heard of Laravel, and was pretty okay with that.
(4) "One of C’s old promises was to act like a PDP-11 computer." I wasn't aware of this assertion. I'll have to think about it. Do the increment / decrement operations mirror the PDP-11's addressing modes? I guess maybe they do!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP11_architecture#Addressing_...
Actually, it isn't, is spite of commonly being referred to as such. From Wikipedia:
* "Designed by Howard Bromberg, Norman Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, with indirect influence from Grace Hopper"
* "[Grace Hopper] did not participate in its work except through the general guidance she gave to her staff who were direct committee members. Thus, while her indirect influence was very important, regrettably the frequent repeated statements that "Grace Hopper developed Cobol" or "Grace Hopper was a codeveloper of Cobol" or "Grace Hopper is the mother of Cobol" are just not correct."