Poppies Popping

Seems to be happening everywhere.

A weird and wonderful day spent deep in very-computery things.

My discovery of the day was that there was/is a computer language called JOVIAL.  I'd never heard of it.  And being the curious type that I am I was off to find out more.

When you discover that the things it was used to program  JOVIAL is not a word that would spring to mind.

Milstar communications satellite
Advanced Cruise Missile
B-52, B-1B, B-2 bombers
C-130, C-141, C-17 transport aircraft
F-111, F-15, F-16 (prior to Block 50), F-117 fighter aircraft
LANTIRN
U-2 aircraft
Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft (Prior to Block 40/45)
Navy Aegis cruisers
Army Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS)
Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters
F100, F117, F119 jet engines
NORAD air defense & control system (Hughes HME-5118ME system)
NATO Air Defence Ground Environment (NADGE) system
RL10 rocket engines
Civil NAS (National Airspace System) Air Traffic Control

APG-70, APG-71, and APG-73 airborne radar systems

JOVIAL = Jules' Own Version of the International Algebraic Language, after the leader of the a US military project.

My job leads me in very unexpected directions.