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Let's add Grace Hopper, who created the first compiler and the first human-readable programming language (COBOL). Doesn't get more huge than that.
by astazangasta 11y ago
Let's add Grace Hopper, who created the first compiler and the first human-readable programming language (COBOL). Doesn't get more huge than that.
- hga 11y agoLet's not get carried away, Autocodes with compilers for the Mark 1 well precede her FLOW-MATIC for the UNIVAC I, which precedes COBOL. A lot of this depended on computer access, this is back in the days before core memory, when a several thousand vacuum tubes were used for the CPU, and before core memory was generally available. The Mark 1 initially had 5120 bits of main memory using CRTs, the UNIVAC I used mercury delay lines, 1,000 words of 12 characters.
- facepalm 11y agoAnd an article about here is being pushed through HN and social media every two weeks. Hardly forgotten.