@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai @jackielovescompchem32@scicomm.xyz Don't forget Grace Hoper, who invented the idea of programming languages and wrote compilers. And Lovelace who built the mathematics underpinning the generalization of computer logic, effectively building assembler as a conceptual model ( since she didn't have real functioning machines of note to work with), the base structures of data encoding.