Grace Hopper
9 December 1906 – 1 January 1992
American computer scientist and US Navy rear admiral, a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first compilers and shaped the development of COBOL.
Lived at the same time
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Created the A-0 compiler
1952
One of the first compilers, translating symbolic code to machine code.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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Helped define COBOL
1959
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