Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral who pioneered machine independent programming languages. Working on the Harvard Mark I during the Second World War and later on the UNIVAC I, she wrote the first compiler, a program that translates human readable source code into machine code, and her team development work fed directly into COBOL, one of the first widely used business programming languages. She is also credited with popularizing the term debugging after her team traced a computer malfunction to a moth trapped in a relay.
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What did Grace Hopper contribute to programming languages?
She wrote the first compiler and her team's work fed into COBOL.
Working on the Harvard Mark I during the Second World War and later on the UNIVAC I, Hopper wrote the first compiler, a program that translates human readable source code into machine code. Her team's development work fed directly into COBOL, one of the first widely used business programming languages. She is also credited with popularizing the term debugging after her team traced a computer malfunction to a moth trapped in a relay.
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Developed the first compiler and helped found the discipline of software engineering practice.
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Source Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information AgeKurt W. Beyer
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Her team at Remington Rand wrote the compiler for the A-0 programming language in May 1952 and coined the term compiler.
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1. Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age
Kurt W. Beyer, MIT Press, 2009
Grace Hopper (Wikipedia)
In Group: Software and Programming Pioneers, IntroductionQuote, In Group: Software and Programming Pioneers, Introduction
She was a pioneer of computer programming.
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