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To: redlegplanner

She did but I think she was also instrumental in the development of COBOL. For anyone under 40 that was a programming language. :)


19 posted on 10/08/2008 8:16:24 PM PDT by JrsyJack
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To: JrsyJack
She did but I think she was also instrumental in the development of COBOL. For anyone under 40 that was a programming language.

I'm not sure about her contribution to COBOL, but Grace Hopper pioneered the development of early assembly language compilers, the first step beyond writing directly in the binary language of 0 and 1.

45 posted on 10/09/2008 10:25:31 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Brother, can you spare a dime?)
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