"Shadow Dancer" <insomniac at winterslight.org> wrote in message
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> > > > If Grace Murray Hopper really did invent the compiler, then her
impact
> > has
> > > > been far beyond that of Marie Curie, and most Nobel Laureates in
> > general.
> > > > http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/hopper.html> > > >
> > >
> > > She did. She also was the first to "debug" a computer:).
> >
> > Oh my! It's unfortunate that they didn't have the Turing award back
then.
> >
> > I don't think the people here realize that without compilers there
> probably
> > be no usenet, no web browsers, and no large information technology
> industry.
> > Her contribution was essential in the information age.
> >
>> Those of us who have been in the military - and heavily into information
> technology - do realize her contribution very, very much.
>> I notice John hasn't found a way to refute the fact that Grace Murray
Hopper
> has a lot to do with his ability to air his archaic views.
>> The Shadow Dancer
>>
This is another feminazi myth that will be dispelled, forthwith.
First of all, Hopper did not "invent" compilers--this is something that ALL
programmers did on the fly as they used machine language with early
computers. Second of all, feminazi sites also claim that she invented
Cobol, and in 4 decades of programming in Cobol, I never even heard of
Hopper. Third of all, a search on the net for compiler patents produces a
LOT of men who have compiler patents, but no Hopper. Fourth of all, the
feminazis who claim that Hopper "invented" the Mark I computer forget that
she was an assistant to Howard Aiken, who DID *develop* the Mark I computer.
And lastly, it's absurd to claim that any civil servant, even if they did
get a patent for something, invented anything. The vast majority of R&D,
development, inventions, and patent applications are filed by industry, not
government. The role the affirmative action federal government ever played
in any inventions is grossly over-rated.
Of the 32,300 compiler patents referenced on the net, only 150 refer to
Grace Murray Hopper, and none of those sites provide a compiler patent
number for Hopper.
Could it be that the men with the patents for compilers DID develop them,
while you feminazis are trying to steal their thunder, using Hopper as an
excuse?
This is almost as bad as dredging up the century old quarter of a patent
Marie Curie got.
John Knight
