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Local Enough?

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Culture & life

Which US computer pioneer and Navy rear admiral developed one of the first compilers and helped create the COBOL language?

  • A Ada Lovelace
  • ✕ Katherine Johnson Your answer
  • C Margaret Hamilton
  • ✓ Grace Hopper

Not quite.

Grace Hopper built an early compiler in the early 1950s. It translated human-readable instructions into machine code, and she pushed for programming languages closer to English.

Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica / Smithsonian: Grace Hopper

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