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Thomas Bnt ☕

Grace Hopper! Learn more about the idea behind the first creation of the compilator. To take a closer look at his background. History has always fascinated me 😍

Grace Brewster Hopper was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and the FLOW-MATIC programming language she created using this theory was later extended by others to create COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today.