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Letterman: How did you know so much about computers then? Hopper: I didn't. It was the first one. What a beautiful tribute to Grace Hopper's pioneering spi
by mustpax 14y ago
Letterman: How did you know so much about computers then?
Hopper: I didn't. It was the first one.
What a beautiful tribute to Grace Hopper's pioneering spirit.
- raganwald 14y agoI hope I'm not being too sentimental in thinking of her as an über-hacker. She invented the very first English-like programming language, FLOW-MATIC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOW-MATIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOW-MATIC