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grace hopper
     
         us navy rear admiral grace brewster hopper
        1906-12-09 to 1992-01-01, nee grace brewster murray.
     
        hopper is believed to have concieved the concept of the
        compiler with the a-0 in 1952.  she also developed the
        first commercial high-level language, which eventually
        evolved into cobol.  she worked on the mark i computer
        with howard aiken and with binac in 1949.
     
        she is credited with having coined the term "debug", and the
        adage "it is always easier to ask forgiveness than it is to
        get permission" with various wordings, which has been the
        guiding principle in sysadmin decisions ever since.
     
        see also the entries debug and bug.
     
        hopper is buried at arlington national cemetery.  in 1994, the
        us navy named a new ship, the guided-missile destroyer uss
        hopper http://www.hopper.navy.mil/, after her.
     
        1999-06-29
     
     
see also:
compiler a-0 high-level language cobol mark i binac 
sysadmin debug bug lt;uss hoppergt; 

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