If you use a computer, which you most likely do unless your reading this on a printed copy, in which case you are only reading this because of a computer, unless you got your hands on Tumblr’s data storage servers, cracked open the hard drive this is stored on, and are reading the 1s and 0s that make up this post with a high power microscope, which is probably run by a computer…. You know what? If you are reading this, thank that women^. Her name is Grace Hopper, and she is one of the most under appreciated computer scientists ever. You think Gates and Jobs were cool? THIS WOMEN WORKED ON COMPUTERS WHEN THEY TOOK UP ROOMS. ROOMS I TELL YOU, ROOMS! She invented the first compiler, which is a program that translates a computer language like Java or C++ into machine code, called assembly, that can be read by a processor. Without it we would still be writing everything in raw assembly, which takes much longer and is much less human-readable. Every single program you use, every operating system and server, was made possible by her first compiler. She made it when no one thought it was possible. The pervading thought at the time was that computers could only use assembly and therefore only do basic arithmetic, but she proved them wrong. Oh, and she worked on some of the first super computers for the Navy. This women is one of my heroes. Also, she has a destroyer named after her, and a super computer, called the Cray XE6 “Hopper”.
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If you use a computer, which you most likely do unless your reading this on a printed copy, in which case you are only reading this because of a computer, unless you got your hands on Tumblr’s data storage servers, cracked open the hard drive this is stored on, and are reading the 1s and 0s that make up this post with a high power microscope, which is probably run by a computer…. You know what? If you are reading this, thank that women^. Her name is Grace Hopper, and she is one of the most under appreciated computer scientists ever. You think Gates and Jobs were cool? THIS WOMEN WORKED ON COMPUTERS WHEN THEY TOOK UP ROOMS. ROOMS I TELL YOU, ROOMS! She invented the first compiler, which is a program that translates a computer language like Java or C++ into machine code, called assembly, that can be read by a processor. Without it we would still be writing everything in raw assembly, which takes much longer and is much less human-readable. Every single program you use, every operating system and server, was made possible by her first compiler. She made it when no one thought it was possible. The pervading thought at the time was that computers could only use assembly and therefore only do basic arithmetic, but she proved them wrong. Oh, and she worked on some of the first super computers for the Navy. This women is one of my heroes. Also, she has a destroyer named after her, and a super computer, called the Cray XE6 “Hopper”.

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