Mother of Compilers

Mother of Compilers

“Oh my God, we exist”

I laughed a lot with that phrase, but I will talk about that later.

 I have heard abot COBOL but I did not know that a womer was in the devlopment, it is an iconic programming language, it is the firs way to comunícate instructions to a machine for “average” people, and sometimes we talk about the extrordinary impact it has and there are some jokes but it is just a reminder of the language in a fun way.

Going back to the video and the article I was really amazed when I begun reading and watching the video about her, there is so many things that we should be grateful with her, She was responsible not only for the development of the Cobol, she was a participant of the continuous innovation in software, because everybody suddendly wanted to be in the computer industry. I am not saying it is a bad idea, I mean, I am here and if not for that maybe I will be interested in other stuff and not IT.

I like the story about the Computer Bug that was a real world bug, I use the term bug for errors in my programs and debugging as usual part of my vocabulary and time ago I listened the story but I in that moment I had not idea it was part of Grace Hopper´s memories.

I agree abot the idea of equality of Opportunities independant of the gender, if someone has the abilities then should try and maybe make amazing things.

Ok taking the first line again, I do not know why are so few women in IT, in more traditional cience is, at least what I have seen, almost the same number of male and female students, workers and professors but it will be great if more women could be interesting in this area, is facinating and has lots of braches of study.