Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

Who was Grace Hopper?

  1. The Inventor of COBOL

  2. Bill Gates’s first secretary

  3. The person who gave IBM the nick name “Big Blue”

  4. The designer of the ENIAC computer
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Explanation

Grace Murray Hopper led the team that created COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) in 1959-1960. While often called the 'inventor' of COBOL, she was the primary technical leader of the COBOL committee and had previously developed FLOW-MATIC, which directly influenced COBOL's design. She was a US Navy rear admiral and computer pioneer, not Gates' secretary or the ENIAC designer.

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