Grace Hopper — "I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could…"
I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.
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Recalling the initial resistance and skepticism towards her development of the first compiler.
Date: Circa 1952 (spoken about later, e.g., in 1987 speech)
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