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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, in reference to an incident where literally an insect caused a mainframe computer system to crash.
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Admiral '''Grace Murray Hopper''' was an early pioneer in .  She led the team that designed the [[COBOL]]  and wrote its compiler. She popularized the usage of the term ''[[computer bug|bug]]'' to refer to a software error, in reference to an incident where a moth literally caused a computer to fail.
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She helped create [[COBOL]].
 
  
 
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Revision as of 03:31, April 5, 2011

Admiral Grace Murray Hopper was an early pioneer in . She led the team that designed the COBOL and wrote its compiler. She popularized the usage of the term bug to refer to a software error, in reference to an incident where a moth literally caused a computer to fail.

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