"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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In uk.d-i-y, Andy Wade wrote:

Interesting - I think I first heard "one foot per ns" from somebody at
Mullard; I didn't know there was connection with Ms Hopper. Didn't she
invent the concept of the compiler?


I don't think she's the one we thank for compilers: early FORTRAN beat
her to that punch.


You sure about that?

I assumed COBOL predated Fortan.

No. Fortran (FORmula TRAnslation) was the first high level language, well 3
GL. COBOL was in 1959. It was a temporary measure that they expected to
last no more than 5 years.



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