Mother of Compilers

After reading the article entitled "Grace Hopper - The Mother of Cobol" and after watching the documentary called "The Queen Of Code", directed by Gillian Jacobs in 2015, I can say that I realized that Grace Hopper did a pretty job useful for humanity, and this was very useful both at that time and today.

I thought the story of how the term "bug" was popularized was very funny. I did not know the story well and I thought it was quite peculiar how that term came about when a moth was found inside the computer, and that was what prevented it from working, which is why a bug literally impeded its operation.

On the other hand, it seems incredible to me how Grace Hopper managed to be assigned to the Bureau of Ships Computation project at Harvard, especially due to the fact that at that time, a woman with a Doctorate could not aspire to do great things. It is for the above, that I found it surprising that even after all they have managed to create the first compiler and thus lay the foundations to create Cobol (And lead the developer team). At that time, computing was unique to men, and that's why I think she should have been very talented to do so much. Even in the documentary they said that it was a very common joke to say that women in computing were like unicorns, because they do not exist, however, she was very ahead of her time and demonstrated the great capacity women have in computer science and in any other job that would be considered exclusive for men.

I think that for a long time it was an obstacle for humanity to live in a society so sexist that it did not allow women to grow professionally, because probably many other women, like Grace Hopper would have managed to give much more to society if not for all impediments given only by the fact that they are women.

I think that the time in which we live now, that has changed a lot, but not enough since there are still people who think the same way they thought 100 years ago, especially people without education. It is unfortunate that she has not been as well known as Alan Turing, since history did not allow it. Fortunately, there are people who give themselves the job of making known great figures in the history of humanity, in such a way that they can recognize and give credit to those people who deserved it for their work, effort and intellect.