Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds. I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.
Her programming language, FLOW-MATIC, was extended and is now known as COBOL and is still in use today.
She was an amazing woman in other ways too, the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale University - in 1934!
I'm totally against women in combat, because we live in a culture and a society that imposes on every man the concept of women and children first...If you had a man and a woman trying to go through some dangerous woods, the man's instinct would be to protect the woman. Therefore you weaken the man.
I've received many honors and I'm grateful for them; but I've already received the highest award I'll ever receive, and that has been the privilege and honor of serving very proudly in the United States Navy.
The person who invented modern programming was also a woman - Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
Her programming language, FLOW-MATIC, was extended and is now known as COBOL and is still in use today.
She was an amazing woman in other ways too, the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale University - in 1934!