developed the first compiler in 1952
Hopper Before the invention of the programmers had to write lengthy instructions in binary code (machine language) for any new piece of software . The compiler, therefore, was a wonderful way to save time and errors, but Hopper did not stop there.
and invented the COBOL, the first family language used to write programs management, language still in use today.
Grace Murray Hopper (New York, 1906 ) Was a mathematics, computing and military statunitense.Definita by many as a pioneer of computer programming, he graduated in mathematics from Yale in 1934, teaching for two years at Vassar, before joining the Naval Reserve in 1943 . Famous for his work on the first digital computer of the Navy, Harvard Mark I, was assigned to the office for the University Ordenance Computation Project
Harvard.La his career came in 1949 when he entered the prestigious Eckert- Mauchly Computer Corporation, the same company that developed the ENIAC, one of the first digital computers in circulation, which was planning the UNIVAC I, namely that that would be the first computer model commerciale.Continuò his hard work as a designer and researcher at the Institute after being dismissed from the Reserve and in 1966, was immediately recalled to work on the standardization of language for military computers. He was discharged in 1986 with the rank of admiral. It is also famous for having popularized the use of the term "bug " to indicate a malfunction of a computer.
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