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The Way Forward

Mustellus

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10. Met her.. neat neat neat lady.....

Reply to usaf-vet (Original post)

Fri Mar 28, 2025, 08:56 PM

Mar 28

The military bureaucracy had a multi-year process for buying computers, back when a computer required its own building, AC, and a staff of a hundred or so. Then PC's came out, and Admiral Grace Hopper couldn't get one... with out the multi-year bureaucratic process. So she sent in 100 requests for one PC each.
The bureaucracy responded by saying how much they would need to expand to handle all this increased workload.

But, she did finally break that bottleneck. Sometimes it doesn't take an Elmo Musk to cut out waste.

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Grace M Hopper USN was a COBOL programming expert. And was responsible for the Defense Department's COBOL software. [View all] usaf-vet Mar 28 OP

That's The Point Though. They WANT To Destroy It. That's The Goal. MayReasonRule Mar 28 #1

That is the goal for everything they are doing. To please pootin! SheltieLover Mar 28 #3

Ty for sharing this! SheltieLover Mar 28 #2

God help us if musk and his teen/20-somethng hackers get their hands... brush Mar 28 #4

Oh gawd... SheltieLover Mar 28 #7

Too late. Already happened. erronis Mar 28 #11

Rewrite the code in months says the guy who thought Phoenix61 Mar 28 #5

Haven't they disappeared her yet? cbabe Mar 28 #6

Thanks for sharing. yellow dahlia Mar 28 #8

The goal of replacing all that cobol code is a good goal CloudWatcher Mar 28 #9

And I suspect that Admiral Grace would be delighted. soldierant Mar 28 #15

Met her.. neat neat neat lady..... Mustellus Mar 28 #10

I had the great pleasure of meeting her once sdfernando Mar 28 #12

if it aint broke dont fix it. AllaN01Bear Mar 28 #13

+1 dalton99a Saturday #18

Love her story and philosophy. I've worked with these script kiddie types and man o man can they throw a monkey wrench Cheezoholic Mar 28 #14

Fascinating information. Thanks for sharing! Owl Mar 28 #16

You bet. Cobol was a reliable OS, but most, if not all, programmers are retired or gone considering 1960 was the peak. usaf-vet Mar 28 #17

Just watched a presentation by Grace Hopper on YouTube. Owl Saturday #20

As an old, retired IT guy hurl Saturday #19

if the right has its way Skittles Saturday #21

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