Hopper is known for her pioneering work in computer programming. Here's a link to an article that includes an image showing her celebrated 1947 journal entry in which she documents, and preserves, a bug that prevented an early computer program from running correctly. The bug is a moth.
A woefully under-appreciated character. She created the first compiler for a computer language in the late-40's. To put that into context, every program on your computer has been compiled (into a binary executable).
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Great new name for the series.
Hopper is known for her pioneering work in computer programming. Here's a link to an article that includes an image showing her celebrated 1947 journal entry in which she documents, and preserves, a bug that prevented an early computer program from running correctly. The bug is a moth.
http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/103/206
thanks for renaming the series, and i'm excited for more
A woefully under-appreciated character. She created the first compiler for a computer language in the late-40's. To put that into context, every program on your computer has been compiled (into a binary executable).
The memory I shall always treasure about Grace Hopper is her profoundly practical and astonishingly useful advice:
"It is always much easier to apologize than it is to obtain permission."
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