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  • RIP Jean Sammet "Co-Designer of COBOL"

    From Kerry Liles@1:2320/100 to comp.lang.cobol on Tue Jun 6 09:52:06 2017
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.cobol

    Jean Sammet has passed away at 89.

    See obituary at NY Times:

    <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/technology/obituary-jean-sammet-software-designer-cobol.html?_r=0>

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  • From docdwarf@1:2320/100 to comp.lang.cobol on Wed Jun 7 15:43:57 2017
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.cobol

    In article <oh6bri$tod$[email protected]>,
    Kerry Liles <[email protected]> wrote:
    Jean Sammet has passed away at 89.

    See obituary at NY Times:

    <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/technology/obituary-jean-sammet-software-designer-cobol.html?_r=0>

    May he sleep with the angels.

    DD

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  • From Robert Wessel@1:2320/100 to comp.lang.cobol on Wed Jun 7 11:25:16 2017
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.cobol

    On Wed, 7 Jun 2017 15:43:57 +0000 (UTC), [email protected] () wrote:

    In article <oh6bri$tod$[email protected]>,
    Kerry Liles <[email protected]> wrote:
    Jean Sammet has passed away at 89.

    See obituary at NY Times:
    <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/technology/obituary-jean-sammet-software-designer-cobol.html?_r=0>

    May he sleep with the angels.


    /she/

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  • From Vince Coen@1:2320/100 to docdwarf on Wed Jun 7 19:33:22 2017
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.cobol

    Hello docdwarf!

    Wednesday June 07 2017 16:43, you wrote to All:

    In article <oh6bri$tod$[email protected]>,
    Kerry Liles <[email protected]> wrote:
    Jean Sammet has passed away at 89.

    See obituary at NY Times:

    <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/technology/obituary-jean-sammet-s
    oftware-designer-cobol.html?_r=0>

    May he sleep with the angels.

    He ?


    Vince

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  • From docdwarf@1:2320/100 to comp.lang.cobol on Thu Jun 8 07:37:26 2017
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.cobol

    In article <[email protected]>,
    Robert Wessel <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Wed, 7 Jun 2017 15:43:57 +0000 (UTC), [email protected] () wrote:

    In article <oh6bri$tod$[email protected]>,
    Kerry Liles <[email protected]> wrote:
    Jean Sammet has passed away at 89.

    See obituary at NY Times:
    <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/technology/obituary-jean-sammet-software-designer-cobol.html?_r=0>

    May he sleep with the angels.


    /she/

    My error and apologies... instead of Jean Sammet I saw Jean Genet.

    DD

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  • From Moose@1:2320/100 to comp.lang.cobol on Mon Jun 12 03:46:57 2017
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.cobol

    On Tuesday, June 6, 2017 at 11:52:09 PM UTC+10, Kerry Liles wrote:
    Jean Sammet has passed away at 89.

    See obituary at NY Times:

    <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/technology/obituary-jean-sammet-software-designer-cobol.html?_r=0>

    Rest in peace. Long live COBOL.

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