Admiral Grace Hopper

invented the first compiled computer language, saving many humans from the horrors of machine language programming. She also popularized 'debugging' as the verb for removing flaws in software. in her case, she literally found a bug -- smashed in a relay!

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Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, a pioneer Computer Programmer and co-inventor of the Common Business Oriented Language (COBOL).

Grace Hopper,

American computer scientist, stands in front of a Univac mainframe in 1952. She designed one of the first commercial large-scale electronic computer (UNIVAC I), developed COBOL which made it possible for computers to respond to words and not just numbers, and one of only a few female admirals in the U.S. Navy

Her name is Grace Hopper

and she is one of the most under appreciated computer scientists ever. You think Gates and Jobs were cool? THIS WOMEN WORKED ON COMPUTERS WHEN THEY TOOK UP ROOMS. She invented the first compiler, which is a program that translates a computer language like Java or C++ into machine code, called assembly, that can be read by a processor. Every single program you use, every OS and server, was made possible by her first compiler.

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