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Comment Re:Ideology is what it's all about (Score 4, Informative) 786

Hardware donations do not come from vendors who use OpenSSH on parts of their stuff. They come from individuals. The hardware vendors who use OpenSSH on all of their products have given us a total of one laptop since we developed OpenSSH five years ago. And asking them for that laptop took a year. That was IBM.

Theo de Raadt

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html

Comment Re:Article contians junk (Score 1) 435

> FORTRAN was the first ever language

Step 1 : check your assumptions

The A-0 system (Arithmetic Language version 0), written by Grace Hopper (In 1934, she earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale) in 1951 and 1952 for the UNIVAC I, was the first compiler ever developed for an electronic computer.

In late 1953, John W. Backus submitted a proposal to his superiors at IBM to develop a more practical alternative to assembly language for programming their IBM 704 mainframe computer.

> And COBOL being an academic language? Oh dear.

In the spring of 1959 a two day conference known as the CODASYL brought together computer experts from industry and government. Hopper served as the technical consultant to the committee, and many of her former employees served on the short-term committee that defined the new language, COBOL. The new language extended Hopper's FLOW-MATIC language with some ideas from the IBM equivalent, the COMTRAN.

nice try

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