The achievements of Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, which include, most notably, the invention of the compiler, cemented her place at the forefront of the computing revolution that began in the early 1940s.
Trained as a mathematician, her career spanned six decades..
Alfred Vaino Aho (born August 9, 1941) is a Canadian computer scientist best known for his work on programming languages, compilers, and related algorithms, and his textbooks on the art and science of computer programming..
The first implemented compiler was written by Grace Hopper, who also coined the term "compiler", referring to her A-0 system which functioned as a loader or linker, not the modern notion of a compiler..
A compiler is a special program that translates a programming language's source code into machine code, bytecode or another programming language.
The source code is typically written in a high-level, human-readable language such as Java or C++..
In 1951, Grace Hopper wrote the first compiler, A-0 (www.byte.com).
A compiler is a program that turns the language's statements into 0's and 1's for the computer to understand..
