The first female programmer of a commercial application worked in a cake company (and just died at 93 years old) - TheNewsTrace

This week the news was made public that Mary Coombs died on February 28.. Probably, his name doesn’t ring a bell to you. And yet he played a fundamental role in the history of computing by becoming the first female programmer of a commercial application. In 1…

This week the news was made public that Mary Coombs died on February 28.. Probably, his name doesn’t ring a bell to you. And yet he played a fundamental role in the history of computing by becoming t… [+5260 chars]

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