My grandfather got his PhD because he lost an argument to Grace Hopper because she had a PhD and he didn't. He was working for the Navy at the time, and he want

My grandfather got his PhD because he lost an argument to Grace Hopper because she had a PhD and he didn't. He was working for the Navy at the time, and he wanted to use a higher level language for some operating system they were building. Grace Hopper thought that higher level languages were only suitable for business applications, not other computing purposes where performance was more important. This is a link to a paper he wrote about one of the first cross compilers that they had built: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/367436.367477 https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/367436.367477