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Hello, World: Programming Languages for the Polyglot Developer

Command Line Heroes

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Grace Hopper and the Neanderthals

In the early days automatic programming, Grace Hopper was considered to be like space cadets in the community of programmers and computer people. People who weren't on board eventually became known as the Neanderthals. Pretty much every language that you and I rely on owes a debt to Hopper and her first compiler.

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