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5 programming languages that were created by Woman

  1. ARC Assembly
    ARC assembly was created by Kathleen Booth in 1950. It required you to write in a series of 0s and 1s.
  2. COBOL
    COBOL was created by Grace Hopper. It was created for the US government and businesses who were looking for a data processing programming language.
  3. FORMAC
    FORMAC was created by Jean Sammet in 1962. It is an extension of FORTRAN developed by IBM in the 1950s.IBM hired Jean to work on FORMAC and make it useful for mathematical/scientific computing.
  4. CLU
    CLU was created by Barbara Liskov in 1974. Barbara was the first woman in the USA to be awarded a Ph.D. in computer science.CLU highly influenced modern programming languages like Java, Python, and C++.
  5. BBC BASIC
    BBC BASIC was created by Sophie Wilson in 1981. It was the first programming language for television programming. BBC BASIC includes procedures, functions and IF-THEN-ELSE structure.

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