RE: Re[2]: Education (was RPG Trivia)

Back in the late 80's or early 90's I read a New York Times article about an
operating environment that was generating some interest with some Wall
Street firms.  It was a distributed computing scheme using a network of
RS/6000's where one master organized number crunching tasks among the
slaves.  Apparently a couple of banks or brokerage firms were trying to use
it for some sort of processing-intensive financial analysis.  It was touted
as being a potential Cray beater with considerably less investment in
hardware.

At any rate, the system, named Linda, grew out of a college student's
Master's project.  When asked why he named the system Linda he explained,
"Well, Ada was named for Ada Lovelace..."

-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Sabella [mailto:Todd.Sabella@alltel.com]
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 1:33 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re[2]: Education (was RPG Trivia)


     
     When I was in college (1991-1995), all programming classes began with 
     the evolution of the language, how they got their names, and who the 
     key players were that "thunk" them up...
     
     COBOL - Grace Hopper
     BASIC - some guys named Kimmeny and Kurtz
     Pascal - Nicklaus Werth
     Modula/2 - Nicklaus Werth
     Ada - named for Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer
     
     Todd
     
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Subject: Re: Education (was RPG Trivia)
Author:  MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com at INTERNET
Date:    4/6/2001 11:29 AM


I have a question.  Do you all feel that, on the average, programmers 
coming out of college are lees knowledgeable about the profession than 
those say 10 or 20 years ago?
     
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