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“This language, through evolution and contributions by others, is today known as assembly language.”

Liam Proventheregister.com ↗

Kathleen Booth built the hardware for some of Britain’s first computers, then wrote all their software and invented the notation we now call assembly. She also co-founded what became Birkbeck’s computer science department. She died at 100. Every compiler still emits a descendant of her notation, and most of the people who use it have never heard her name.