[OT]Grace Hopper

[Mark Smith]

There's a nice article about Grace Hopper here:
http://www.i-programmer.info/history/8-people/294-the-mother-of- 
cobol.html

It shows an example of the verbose language for her B-0 compiler:

The language was targeted at business use and Hopper even felt that  
arithmetic expressions were too complicated for the average user and  
introduced a very wordy language - for example

Add One To Total
rather than
Total=Total+1

Strangely familiar....
Best,

Mark Smith