On Mon, 2018-12-03 at 20:36 +0100, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > > the epsiode about Joe Ossanna is indeed funny, but what > > the guy in the video is saying at that point is of course > > total crap: very untrue in multiple respects and totally > > irresponsible. > > Indeed, I did not mean to imply it was factual. But it > is entertaining. It reminded me of the legions of Cobol > programmers that will be needed for y10k fixes. :-)
Which triggers a memory from decades past (1960+) when (then employed by the UK War Office) I worked with a computer language, locally developed, which they had named MIRFAC: "Mathematics In Recognisable Form Automatically Compiled" this being the closest acronym they could devise to MIRFAK: Mirfak is the brightest star in the constellation of Perseus, in which the second brightest start is ALGOL! See e.g.: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/5791/Programming-in-MIRFAC/ Best wishes to qll, Ted.
