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Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, Amazing Grace, is one of the giants of computer programming. She wrote the first compiler in 1952 when computers were huge banks of vacuum tubes that took up an entire floor. The first computer bug was a moth fried in one of the banks! In 1959, she began working on the computer language now known as COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language). I saw a videotaped lecture by Adm. Hopper when I worked at Sabre Computer Systems in Tulsa, She showed the same delightful dry wit you see in the Letterman interview. Oh yeah, we all got our own nanosecond, a length of wire cut to the distance light travels in one nanosecond (30 cm). I may still have mine somewhere. youtu.be/1-vcErOPofQ
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 23:03:44 +0000

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