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Ralph -<br>
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Yes, I remember meeting Grace Hopper at a local Washington DC ACM (The
Association for Computing Machinery) meeting, years go. <br>
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She gave me one of her nanoseconds which I promptly brought home and
put it in a special drawer in my ham shack.<br>
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I still remember her telling us the story of how the term "debugging"
came into existence. <br>
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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".<span class="moz-smiley-s1"><span>
:-) </span></span><br>
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Terry McCarty
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Ralph Wallio, W0RPK wrote:
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<font face="Courier New">The Queen Of Code<br>
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By Allison McCann <br>
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You probably don’t know the name Grace Hopper, but you should.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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TNX es 73 de Ralph Wallio, W0RPK<br>
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