The Queen Of Code

[Terry McCarty - WA5NTI]

Ralph -

Yes, I remember meeting Grace Hopper at a local Washington DC ACM (The 
Association for Computing Machinery) meeting, years go. 

She gave me one of her nanoseconds which I promptly brought home and put 
it in a special drawer in my ham shack.

I still remember her telling us the story of how the term "debugging" 
came into existence. 

Every once in a while, I open up that special drawer and experience the 
mental flash-back, returning to those wonderful days of yesteryear, when 
I first me "The Queen Of Code". :-)

-- 
     Terry McCarty
    3t3 at comcast.net
        wa5nti



Ralph Wallio, W0RPK wrote:

> http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-queen-of-code/
>
> The Queen Of Code
>
> By Allison McCann   
>
> You probably don't know the name Grace Hopper, but you should.
>
> As a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, Hopper worked on the first 
> computer, the Harvard Mark 1. And she headed the team that created the 
> first compiler, which led to the creation of COBOL, a programming 
> language that by the year 2000 accounted for 70 percent of all 
> actively used code. Passing away in 1992, she left behind an 
> inimitable legacy as a brilliant programmer and pioneering woman in 
> male-dominated fields.
>
> Hopper's story is told in "The Queen of Code," directed by Gillian 
> Jacobs (of "Community" fame). It's the latest film in 
> FiveThirtyEight's "Signals" series.
>
> TNX es 73 de Ralph Wallio, W0RPK
>
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