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> When I started out in the compiler business in the 80s many commercial compilers were originally written by one person. A very good person who dedicated himse
by shaggyfrog 15y ago
> When I started out in the compiler business in the 80s many commercial compilers were originally written by one person. A very good person who dedicated himself (I have never heard of a woman doing this)
Grace Hopper?
- naz 15y agoI too found that side-note a bit unnecessary. "Himself" works just fine as a gender-neutral pronoun.
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- kragen 15y agoNot to mention Betty Snyder Holberton, Adele Mildred "Millie" Coss, and I think Jean Sammet. You can probably add Elizabeth Rather to the list; although she was the head of a company at the time, I'm sure there are commercial compilers from the company that she wrote singlehandedly. She also has the distinction of having done this during the 1980s, when the bar for a compiler was a lot higher.
- derleth 15y agoDid any of Grace Hopper's work get released commercially? She was an admiral in the Navy, after all.
- shaggyfrog 15y agoIs that really the point, though? kragen's sibling post makes a better case.