Rear Admiral Grace Hopper (1906 - 1992)

Grace Hopper spent most of her working life in the Navy but is best known as a pioneer computer programmer and co-inventor of COBOL, a programming language that made it possible for computers to respond to words rather than numbers.

She is also remembered for her famous saying - "Its easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission".


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