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0 pointsadrian_b6d ago0 comments

There were other programmers before those of ENIAC, but they also included women, like Grace Hopper, who later had an important role in the development of programming languages.

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DaleBiagio6d ago

Hopper's trajectory from the Mark I to FLOW-MATIC to COBOL is one of the great arcs in computing.

She had to fight to convince people that programs could be written in English-like words, her colleagues thought the idea was absurd because "computers don't understand English."

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0 pointsadrian_b6d ago0 comments

There were other programmers before those of ENIAC, but they also included women, like Grace Hopper, who later had an important role in the development of programming languages.

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DaleBiagio6d ago

Hopper's trajectory from the Mark I to FLOW-MATIC to COBOL is one of the great arcs in computing.

She had to fight to convince people that programs could be written in English-like words, her colleagues thought the idea was absurd because "computers don't understand English."

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