RIP: Betty Holberton, Original Eniac Programmer

DecoDragon writes "Betty Holberton, one of the original ENIAC programmers, died on December 8th. An obituary describing her many achivements as well as her work on the ENIAC can be found in the Washington Post. Her accomplishments included contributing to the development of Cobol and Fortran, and coming up with using mnemonic characters for commands (i.e. a for add). She was awarded the Lovelace Award for extraordinary acomplishments in computing from the Asssociation for Women in Computing, and the Computer Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computer Society for "development of the first sort-merge generator for the Univac which inspired the first ideas about compilation.""

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and they say girls are only good...

[Anonymous Coward]

for cleaning and cooking... the two c's
awful sexist i know

Now that's hard work....

[Bonker]

Hmmm... what will we call the Addition command?

Re:Now that's hard work....

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, most women would have used "p"... because of how they add recipie ingredients together pouring. Thank goodness that Betty, like most female computer users, couldn't cook!

-- The_Messenger

Re:Loss and Gain

[Anonymous Coward]

Can you imagine life without her? One whole section of a computer's logic would be eliminated.

Dude, it was a mnemonic. She didn't invent addition.

dance on her grave

[Anonymous Coward]

We know who to blame for both fortran AND cobol! Go defecate on her grave!

Fortran: Bill Gates' favorite programming language

[Anonymous Coward]

*shudder*

I heard from someone that women were only good for three things and two of which are cleaning clothes and cooking food.

(o Y o) So why do they bother achieving such
\ / status when they are only good for
( # ) fucking?
/ / \ \

puussshhhtt

[Anonymous Coward]

who ever heard of women programmers?

women and computers

[Anonymous Coward]

Today, every woman who is truly proficient at using computers -- as opposed to IT majors -- is either a flat-chested tomboy, or, more usually, a fat goth. I wonder what the corresponding fat-female computer user was like it Betty's day... a fat hippy? A fat beatnik?

Remember, kids, there's nothing stopping girls from being great computer users! Like my wife, for instance, who has revolutionized her recipie collection by learning how to use Microsoft Access. And hey, get her a cute little iMac and she'll never have to leave the kitchen! I'll bet that Betty definitely had to leave the kitchen in order to work with her computer -- she may have even had to shame her sex by working outside the house! How awful!

You have to really monitor your woman's computer use, though, or even the most flat-chested of girls will start to pork up. You see, to the female, a PC is just like a television: an excuse to sit on her ass and overeat while passively staring at a glowing screen. The Internet has become the third-leading cause of female ass-expansion, behind Jenny Jones and Friends. If she starts to get a bit too meaty, just fuck her in the ass, and after the fortieth or fiftieth anal reaming, she'll catch on. Unless she's blonde, in which case you may have to resort to a Filthy Sanchez. Woah!

-- The_Messenger

Re:What is your version of the Filthy Sanchez?

[Anonymous Coward]

Start out fuckin' her "doggy style," stick your finger in her asshole until it's good and shitty, then smear the finger across her upper lip. Now she has a mustache approximating the look and smell of a Mexican steretype ("Sanchez").

If you have Flash -- and who doesn't, I mean you'd have to be running Linux otherwise -- check out this Newgrounds animation for a visual demonstration. EvilDave calls it a "Dirty Sanchez," but it's the same sexual maneuver.

-- The_Messenger

Re:I find it amusing ....

[Anonymous Coward]

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