• grue@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Grace Hopper invented the some of the first “high level” languages, FLOW-MATIC and COBOL. I’m not sure about the first assembler.

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      At the time, she called it a “compiler”, but its function was more akin to what we’d call a linker or assembler today.