Grace Hopper

The Navy admiral who wrote the first compiler and taught computing to speak English.

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1906 – 1992

Core Principles & Analysis

• Her A-0 translator (1952) was the first compiler.
• FLOW-MATIC, her English-like language, became the model for COBOL.
• She is the source of the term 'debugging' as popular folklore, after the moth in the Mark II relay.