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Thursday, December 09, 2010

December 9th



Grace Murray Hopper was born this day in 1906. One of the first computer programmers, Harvard Mark 1 computer. She developed the first compiler for computer programming langugages. Conceptualized the "idea of machine-independent programming langugages". And this science lead to the development of "COBOL". One of the first modern programming langugages. And when a moth flew into the computer, creating a glitch- Hopper coined the computer term, "bug and then debugging." And Hopper was a Rear Admiral in the Navy. And her nick name- "Amazing Grace", of course! Salute to Grace Murray Hopper!
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