Rant inspired by seeing her for the 5th time this week: It's like every time I hear about Grace Hopper, it's got to do with a piece of wire. Or tube. And any c

Rant inspired by seeing her for the 5th time this week: It's like every time I hear about Grace Hopper, it's got to do with a piece of wire. Or tube. And any comments on it are usually strangely excited, almost awestruck. What's up, people? She did some other stuff too. Like, no big deal back then, writing a god damn compiler. It's like people treat her like a dancing bear. Look, woman! Look, uniform! Look, she said "nano"! Take a step back and a deep breath. Chill out. "Bike shed" comes to mind, in a weird way.