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Electronic Inventions
Grace Murray Hopper, 1960
Compiling routine A-0, early 1950s
Grace Hopper and her colleagues at Remington-Rand UNIVAC in Philadelphia developed compilers, methods that made it easier to program mainframe computers. Not only were their ideas a personal expression of how they could speed data processing, but compilers would over time find use in millions of individual computing devices. |