Episode 23 - FORTRAN, Compilers, and Early Programming
Advent of Computing
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Grace Hopper's Compiler
Grace Hopper was a pioneer in the field of computer programming. She helped create an automatic system called A series compilers. The performance hit made these systems hard to sell at the time. It would take another programmer, John Bacchus, to get Fortran working.
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