Today is the birthday of one of the inventors of COBOL programming language

The person who needs no introduction in the history of computer world and  programming languages, this is, of course, Captain Grace Hopper ...

These are the words of well-known scholars in the field of programming, author of many books on the history of programming,  Cin Semmit.

Hopper was born in New York City. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar in 1928 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics and earned her master's degree at Yale University in 1930.

In 1934, she earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale. In 1944, she served on the Mark I computer programming staff headed by Howard H. Aiken.

In 1951,  Hopper invented the first complier. The compiler was known as the A compiler and its first version was A-0.

Hopper died in her sleep of natural causes on New Year's Day 1992 at her home in Arlington, Virginia. She is the first winner of “Computer Science Man of the Year” award from the Data Processing Management Association in 1969.

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