Extending the legacy of Admiral Grace Hopper
The Stack Overflow Podcast20 Aug 2021

Extending the legacy of Admiral Grace Hopper

In 1987, Anita Borg, AnitaB.org's namesake, saw how few women were at a "systems" conference. A few casual chats turned into the listserv, Systers, which continues to offer a place for women in engineering to meet and discuss.

Grace Hopper—that's Navy Rear Admiral Hopper to you, civilian—was the first to devise a theory of programming languages that were machine-independent. She created the FLOW-MATIC programming language, which served as the basis for COBOL.

Quincy started in electrical engineering and learned FORTRAN. That experience with how computers operate on hardware helped her teach C++. The difference is like listening to vinyl vs. mp3s.

Should UX designers create technology that you need to adapt to or adapts to you? And will different generations create different interaction paradigms?

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