Mother of Compilers

Now on this post, we're going to talk about the video of Mother of Compilers, so basically the principal figure on this is Grace Murray Hopper, a woman born in 1906, on this computer programming world, so for me is interesting because it was scarce knowing a woman doing something important. So about Grace is called the Queen of Code because of her contributions in which they stand out the creation of COBOL and the one of which are interested for making a compiler to be easier and readable for us.

Another fact about Grace is that joined to de US Naval Reserve, breaking the sterotype of that era, she gain an important charge by knowing how to use computers, but Grace was never focused on computers specifically.

After she introduced herself into the computer world, she wanted to do computers and computing more accessible so she created higher languages to do so. About what she done on her early years are:

1952. Grace and her team at Remington wrote the A-0 compiler, based on her basketball days.

1969. The Data Processing Management Association selected as the first "man" of the year

1971. The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) established the Grace Murray Hopper Award for young computer personnel.

As we can see Grace Hopper was a big icon and woman role model, breaking the stereotypes and inspiring women to introduce to the computer world, so is something to admire the courage she had and the desire to teach another people. So I agree with the tittle, Grace is the Mother of Compilers and an inspirations for the women of that era and not only that, it should be remembered for all the persons in the computer world. Because even when she was retired she wanted to support young people to get involved on this technology field.