RIP: Betty Holberton, Original Eniac Programmer 154
DecoDragon writes "Betty Holberton, one of the original ENIAC programmers, died on December 8th. An obituary describing her many achivements as well as her work on the ENIAC can be found in the Washington Post. Her accomplishments included contributing to the development of Cobol and Fortran, and coming up with using mnemonic characters for commands (i.e. a for add). She was awarded the Lovelace Award for extraordinary acomplishments in computing from the Asssociation for Women in Computing, and the Computer Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computer Society for "development of the first sort-merge generator for the Univac which inspired the first ideas about compilation.""
Big ass memorial (Score:1, Funny)
This woman rocked in many aspects... (Score:2, Funny)
Second, she is probably the programmer with the longest active career: she started before the war, and retired in 1983.
Third, hey, she had a husband 33 years younger than her!
I think she got a few things worth of envy, huh?
Re:Loss and Gain (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The Origin of Pale Grey Boxes, etc. (Score:2, Funny)
Just goes to show, that even great minds make cockups from time to time!