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12 / 09 / 2013

Happy Birthday Grace Hopper

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Today’s Google doodle alerted me to the fact that it’s the 107th birthday of Grace Hopper.

Grace Hopper was a female developer back when it was still truly a man’s world, which makes us love her and her contribution to computer science even more. Here are some of her accomplishments: (Wikipedia for more).

In 1947 while working on a Mark II computer system, she and her team found a moth stuck in a relay. This led to Grace coining the phrase “debugging” the system.
In 1952 she built what is thought to be the first compiler. “Nobody believed that,” she said. “I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”
In 1959 she and a team developed the new language COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language)

Below is one of my personal favourite quotes from Grace Hopper. Share it around, and to our lady programmer friends & associates out there: CODE ON!