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Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age by Kurt W. Beyer — WisdomDeck honest review
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Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age

by Kurt W. Beyer

The Navy mathematician who made programming human-readable: the Harvard Mark I, COBOL, the compiler, the culture of early computing. Scholarly biography.

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  1. Make it readable.
  2. Ask forgiveness, not permission.
  3. Teach the next generation.

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