Grace Hopper

Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral.

One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first compiler related tools.

She popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today.

Date of birth:
9th December, 1906
Date of death:
1st January, 1992
"It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission."
― Grace Hopper
Topic(s): Forgiveness

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