Difference between revisions of "Grace Hopper"
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| − | Admiral '''Grace Murry Hopper''' was the first person to write a computer program that actually worked. She popularized the usage of the term ''[[computer bug|bug]]'' to refer to a software error. | + | Admiral '''Grace Murry Hopper''' was the first person to write a computer program that actually worked. She popularized the usage of the term ''[[computer bug|bug]]'' to refer to a software error, in reference to an incident where literally an insect caused a mainframe computer system to crash. |
She helped create [[COBOL]]. | She helped create [[COBOL]]. | ||
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| + | [[Category:United States Naval Officers]] | ||