Makes easily one of the worst programming languages ever

>makes easily one of the worst programming languages ever
>gets celebrated as a milestone of women in tech because of it
Name a more overrated figure in compsci history.

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She made the first compiler.

Cobol was a good language for its time.

Why do women make you seethe so much? Did some popular chick make you look stupid in school? Did you have a crush on a female friend and she didn't reciprocate? Who hurt you, faggot?

Shame it was for COBOL

She coined the term bug

still better than you faggot

A shame debuggers weren't named bugchasers.

>Was disassembling mechanical devices at the age of 7 to figure out how they worked
>Joined the Navy Reserve during WW2
>Was a Rear Admiral
>Earned 2 medals and 9 ribbons
>Graduated first of her class
>Started Working at the computers at Harvard while still being in the Navy Reserve
>Joined the team that developed UNIVAC I
>Everyone told her that developing a programming language that "could use English" was "impossible"
>Invented a compiler, people still refused to believe it was possible
>This led to COBOL, shutting the naysayers up
>Became the first director of of automatic programming at the company because of that
>COBOL became the standard for the entire Navy for decades after
>Kept being called back into the Navy after being retired
>Ended up the oldest serving person at the Navy, age 79 at the time
>Became a principal engineer until the day she dies at age 85

She did more with 1% of her life when you will ever do in your entire lifetime OP

she was based