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Re:Eniac, the First General-Purpose Digital Computer, Turns 80 by adrian_b on Friday March 20, 2026 @01:35AM (#47450878)
There were other programmers before those of ENIAC, but they also included women, like Grace Hopper, who later had an important role in the development of programming languages.
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Re:Eniac, the First General-Purpose Digital Computer, Turns 80 by DaleBiagio on Friday March 20, 2026 @05:20AM (#47452269)
Hopper's trajectory from the Mark I to FLOW-MATIC to COBOL is one of the great arcs in computing.

She had to fight to convince people that programs could be written in English-like words, her colleagues thought the idea was absurd because "computers don't understand English."

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