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Reply. She ''wrote code''.
:I know it's trendy to give her credit, but if it's not true it shouldn't be here. If feminists want to say she was way ahead of her time, fine: let's describe exactly what she did, but no "stretchers" please (with apologies to [[Mark Twain]]). --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 18:27, 5 April 2011 (EDT)
:I know it's trendy to give her credit, but if it's not true it shouldn't be here. If feminists want to say she was way ahead of her time, fine: let's describe exactly what she did, but no "stretchers" please (with apologies to [[Mark Twain]]). --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 18:27, 5 April 2011 (EDT)
::I'm all for giving credit where credit is due (and there's a lot of credit to go around, and Lovelace and Hopper deserve a lot of it), but I don't see the relevance of Ms. Hopper's contributions on the Ada Lovelace page. They were operating in completely different circumstances, 100 years apart. The only thing that I think connects them is that they were both female computer science pioneers. Perhaps there should be a category for women in computer science? Or in science/math/engineering in general? Yes, Hopper wrote working code, while Ada's code never ran and was later found to have a bug. (And Hopper coined that term :-) But Hopper really wasn't the first person to write code, or working code, or code for an electronic computer, or code for a stored-program electronic computer. She was perhaps the first to see the benefits of high-level languages, and to write a compiler for same. And she may well have been the first person to write working computer code in a high-level language.
::If you still think Grace Murray Hopper should be referenced in this article, by all means do so. [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 20:21, 6 April 2011 (EDT)