13 Sep
2007
13 Sep
'07
9:44 p.m.
On Thursday 13 September 2007 13:39, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I spotted this in my morning news perusal:
"Digitization? The entire network runs on software known as Jovial,
so old there are only six programmers in the country who know how to
write it. And incredible as it seems, family minivans with NavStar
have more sophisticated location guidance than some aircraft."
from: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20724859/
Well, make that seven. I remember JOVIAL (it's all caps BTW).
"Jules Own Version of the International Algorithmic Language"...?
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin