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The Rear Admiral Who Invented The Compiler: ‘Amazing Grace’ Hopper
Grace Hopper, or “Amazing Grace” as she was sometimes known, was a formidable woman. Not only is she one of the few people to have a U.S. Navy destroyer warship and a supercomputer named after her, she was also a Rear Admiral and a pioneering computer scientist. Hopper invented the first compiler for a computer…