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Interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Holberton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Holberton >> in 1997, she received the IEEE Computer Pioneer Aw
by lotharbot 14y ago
Interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Holberton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Holberton
>> in 1997, she received the IEEE Computer Pioneer Award from the IEE Computer Society for developing the sort-merge generator which, according to IEEE, "inspired the first ideas about compilation."
Whereas Hopper coined the term "compiler" and wrote the first one that's recognized as such:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_compiler_construction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_compiler_constructi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-0_programming_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-0_programming_language
- kragen 14y agoIndeed. But A-0 isn't what we'd call a "compiler" today. It was a gradual evolution from Holberton's work (1948? 1949?) through A-0 in 1952, up to, say, 1957, when the first optimizing FORTRAN compiler was shipped, which is definitely what we would call a compiler today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_compiler_writing#First_compilers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_compiler_writing#Fi...