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Helped develop and standardize COBOL.
Hopper brought her commitment to business-oriented, English-like programming into the CODASYL effort.
GOTDONE ARCHIVE · 1906-1992
3 public itemsGrace Hopper
Computer scientist and U.S. Navy officer
PHOTO: James S. Davis / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain ↗Made programming more accessible by pushing computers toward compiled, English-like languages.
What Grace got done.
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Published pioneering work on compilers.
Her compiler work demonstrated that computers could translate higher-level instructions into machine code.
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Programmed the Harvard Mark I.
Hopper joined the wartime computing team and wrote programs and operating instructions for the electromechanical computer.