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One of CS's heroes lauding another. I feel I know both author and subject better for reading this. We are all very lucky to have lived through the foundation o
by rswail 7mo ago
One of CS's heroes lauding another. I feel I know both author and subject better for reading this.
We are all very lucky to have lived through the foundation of a new science and new engineering over the last 50 years.
- tialaramex 7mo agoA bit more than 50 years. Grace Hopper retired in 1966. It's true that Grace kept un-retiring, but the most crucial stuff is all before she retired. Invention of what we'd think of as a linker-loader (which Grace called a compiler) and of the broad concept of high level programming languages all happens in the 1950s.
- rswail 7mo agoI rounded down to the nearest half-century :) I hope to live through to 2050, just to see what's going to happen.