Thursday, March 13, 2008

WHO INVENTED COMPUTER PROGRAMS..

Computer programs are sets of instructions that tell a
computer what to do. Many people worked on early computer
programs. The first programs were very hard to write and
understand. They were extremely long strings of zeros and

ones.
American naval officer and mathematician Grace Murray Hopper
in 1952 wrote the first program that turned English computer
instructions into the strings of ones and zeros that make
computers work. These programs are called compilers. In 1957,
she helped develop the first programming language that
companies could buy and use. It was called FLOW-MATIC. Hopper
was also the first to use the word bug to mean a problem with
a computer. She found a moth trapped in one of the computers
she worked with. She taped the moth into her notebook and
wrote, “First actual case of a bug being found
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