Grace Hopper is known as the "mother of COBOL". Wikipedia lists 11 programming languages created by women https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Programming_languages... , and it includes languages such as Smalltalk, designed by 2 men and 1 woman. Wikipedia has article on 138 programming languages. The main computer languages I know of, such as C, C++, Pascal, Perl, Java, Python, Matlab, and S were primarily or entirely developed by men. Maybe the future will be different, but we should not rewrite the past and pretend that men have not made a large majority of the advances in computer science.
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