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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Gr8fulFox on 2023-08-07 02:08:21.

Original Title: TIL That Grace Hopper, one of the very first women to ever work on a computer, came-up with the idea of using regular, English words to program a computer, due to her post-WWII experience trying to sell computers to the general public.