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Grace Hopper

Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist and US Navy rear admiral who developed early compilers.

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Grace Hopper (1906-1992) was an American computer scientist and US Navy rear admiral. In the 1950s she built A-0, an early compiler, and led the development of FLOW-MATIC, a language that used English-like commands.

FLOW-MATIC strongly influenced COBOL, a programming language for business data processing. She is known for championing the idea of writing programs in languages people can read.

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