From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 16:05:06 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] Grace Hopper In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20171209000506.GT16028@mcvoy.com> On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 10:26:39AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote: > (At the risk of being flamed because it's not strictly Unix...) It might not be Unix but seems appropriate to me, she was amazing. > We gained Rear Admiral Grace Hopper on this day in 1906; known as "Amazing > Grace", she was a remarkable woman, both in computers and the Navy. She > coined the term "debugging" when she extracted a moth from a set of relay > contacts from a computer (the Harvard Mk I) and wrote "computer debugged" in > the log, taping the deceased Lepidoptera in there as well. She was > convinced that computers could be programmed in an English-like language and > developed Flow-Matic, which in turn became, err, COBOL... She was > posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016 by Barack > Obama. > > -- > Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." -- --- Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm