Mother of Compilers (Comment)

There has been only some women that have been recognized in the history of computers and given the situation that those machines were developed in a time in which women had more presence in working at the house while the mens in factories and offices, gives them more recognition. That is the case of Grace Hopper, or I should call her by her nickname, The Mother of Compilers.

When I first started to program in Python my mind was completely amazed of all the things you can code. From simple stuff to complex algorithms which make this world communicate faster. But this wouldn't be possible if Grace hadn't created the first compiler which was the Cobol Compiler. Even when it is an old programming language, it was the first time that an idea of such magnitude was made.

Hopper

She was one of the first persons to refer to a code failure as a 'bug' and that is quite used now a days. With the help of her team at Remington, they wrote the A-0 compiler. Making it possible to program things easier. And ACM created an award on her name, for young computer personnel. After reading all the things she did, you start to see how important she was for humanity. We could be coding in low level programming languages today.

A piece of her biography that gives you the idea of what type of person she was is this one:

"The most important thing I've accomplished, other than building the compiler, is training young people. They come to me, you know, and say, "Do you think we can do this?" I say, "Try it." And I back 'em up. They need that. I keep track of them as they get older and I stir 'em up at intervals so they don't forget to take chances."

She will always be remembered as a pioneering woman in computer science with all her contributions. In recent years there has been an increment of programs for women to bring them to technology, this is a result of the steps they have made to become more and more common in working at jobs that we only taught that a men could do. As we continue forward we will start to see more entrepreneur women directing the next innovations in programming solutions.

References:

Historian. 2013. "The Mother of Cobol". Retrieved 26 of February 2017 from: http://www.i-programmer.info/history/people/294-the-mother-of-cobol.html

McCann, A. 2015. "The Queen of Code". Retrieved 26 of February 2017 from: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-queen-of-code/