Grace Hopper
1906 – 1992 · United States · Computing
Built the first compiler and made programming languages English-like.
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- Alan Turing
1912 – 1954 · Mathematics, Computing
Stored-program universality is what makes a compiler — code writing code — thinkable.
- John von Neumann
1903 – 1957 · Mathematics, Computing
The stored-program architecture is the machine Hopper's compilers targeted.
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