Rear Admiral Dr Grace Murray Hopper pioneered the development of accessible computer programming languages written in English.
She believed opening up computing to business and non-scientific applications required simpler programming languages. Established wisdom was that computers didn’t understand English and it took years before her ideas were accepted.
But through her perseverance she developed a means of programming using words rather than numbers – most notably the COBOL (Common Business Orientated Language) language.
She was described by US talk show host David Letterman as the ‘Queen of Software’.
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