Mother of compilers


Today, programming is fundamental to our lives. It helps us solve life's problems quickly and with accurate results. However, it didn't go away at all from birth.

It was quite interesting to read about the origins of programming. And to know that it was a woman who dedicated herself to that. I had never read about Grace Hopper, but I like that in the article it talks about her life. It tells us about how she was as a child, her interests, her studies and her first works.

Her first advances and works related to programming may seem very little compared to what we have today, but for that time, and especially in a time of war, was quite good and very useful, since before all calculations were done manually, since mathematics was an indispensable tool, because they were in the middle of the Second World War.

And, besides, something that I liked very much was that it talked about his first compilers, the A-0 for example, and how they served, sometime later he improved it and developed better compilers, until he reached his best known development, the compiler for COBOL.

Everything read in the article was very helpful, but at the time of seeing the documentary "THE QUEEN OF CODE" was better to understand it completely. I was surprised when in the documentary they showed some videos of Grace Hopper, speaking in public. In the documentary you can see that the people who talk about her admire her too much for her great contributions to the programming. I liked the images that can be seen in this video, because you can see images about how computers used to be, of great size. With this I can get an idea of how complicated it could be to program something to solve a problem. However, all that has been improving until we get to what we have now.


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