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Yale is renaming Calhoun College after Grace Murray Hopper, one of the pioneers in computer science. Pretty cool!3
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Anders Hjelsberg, creator of Turbo Pascal,C# and Typescript, three of my favorite languages.
Grace Hopper, fighting complacency and standing up for her self. -
I'm confused. How'd we go from contributors like Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper and Margret Hamilton, to: WE NEED MORE WOMEN IN TECH, WE NEED MORE WOMEN IN TECH!!!10
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In the beginning, computers used relays on a macro scale instead of micro electronics
In the 40's admiral grace hopper found a moth in one of the relays and the term "debugging" was born1 -
I'm not sure I have a "favourite" per-se, but Grace Hopper certainly features high up on the list. We might not still all be writing in machine code had she not existed, but such "higher level" languages would certainly have been many years behind where they are now.