9 programming languages and the women who created them
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– 1950 : ARC Assembly (Automatic Relay Calculator), Kathleen Booth
– 1955 : Address, the first to support indirect addressing, for the MESM computer, Kateryna Yushchenko
– 1959 : COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language), Grace Hopper
– 1962 : FORMAC (FORmula MAnipulation Compiler), an extension of FORTRAN that was able to perform algebraic manipulations, Jean Sammet
– 1967 : Logo, for educational programming, Cynthia Solomon (et al.)
– 1974 : CLU, first language to support data abstraction and a precursor of OO programming, Barbara Liskov, the first woman in the United States to be awarded a PhD in computer science.
– 1980 : Smalltalk, a graphical programming environment introducing the concept of garbage collection, Adele Goldberg (et al.)
– 1981 : BBC BASIC, a BASIC version for the Acorn BBC Micro, Sophie Wilson
– 1991 : Coq, a new implementation based on the Calculus of Inductive Constructions, Christine Paulin-Mohring (et al.)