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Re:How did Einstein Think? by mafribe on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @05:23PM (#8926206)
Exactly what has G. Hopper done that warrants her inclusion in this list?
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Re:How did Einstein Think? by benihana on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @07:55PM (#8926839)
She's not Einstein, and she's not well known outside of computer scientis. Seems to line up perfectly with ok_craig's comment.

Of course she was brilliant, and influential, but putting her in the same list as Newton or Einstein feels like intellectual hipsterdom.

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Re:How did Einstein Think? by mafribe on Thursday January 22, 2015 @10:01AM (#8929451)
She's also not well-known inside computer science. I certainly don't know her. Wikipedia isn't a reliable source, so I am not sure what she has done. It appears that she was part of a team that might have developed one of the early loaders/linkers.
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