Re: Next generation COBOL?

<docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Howard Brazee <howard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>The Denver International Airport was designed with a baggage handler,
>>where people would put tags on bags, and they would be conveyed to
>>their destination airplane without human intervention. They spent a
>>fortune on it, and United tried using it for a while. It failed.
>
> So did Dr Paul Erhlich's first six hundred and five attempts to find an
> antibiotic... and wasn't Babbage's Analytical Engine a project that came
> in past deadline and over budget?


I understand that Thomas Edison, when asked why he kept trying after 2000
failures to develop the lightbulb, replied "I didn't fail 2000 times, I
found 2000 ways you can't make a light bulb, and one way that you can."
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Judson McClendon judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (remove zero)
Sun Valley Systems http://sunvaley.com
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."


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