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Grace Hopper on Letterman

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    Letterman: How did you know so much about computers then?
    Hopper: I didn't. It was the first one.

What a beautiful tribute to Grace Hopper's pioneering spirit.

I hope I'm not being too sentimental in thinking of her as an über-hacker. She invented the very first English-like programming language, FLOW-MATIC: