Mother of Compilers

 Early computers were more about the engineering process than logic, and given the circumstances of the era, computers, mechanical computers and not human computers were considered something that only male could dominate and understand, but software was something where females could demonstrate their abilities. Ada Countess of Lovelace was the first women dedicated to programming. 

She worked on COBOL, one of the oldest but still relevant programming languages and helped computing to be everything it is now, she was in computers when computers were not even a thing, programming was not a thing, programs were something, but the process to input code into a machine was hard and expensive to do.  

She was curious when she was young, studying harder than most of other students in high school, and doing much more than was expected for a women.  When the US entered to the second world war, she was assigned to the US Naval Reserve. They knew how smart and valuable to the team she could become if they offered the opportunity, where she worked in one of the first electro-mechanical computers. She created a book with instruction codes,  for those machines, accelerating the process of training in all the personal working there.   

One time, when she was working in this machine, she found out that the Mark I was not behaving properly, after some time analyzing, she found out that there was a bug inside of the machine, an actual bug, after that the term bug is used when a machine fails (even if is your fault).  

The commercialization of the computers was impulsed by this group of people who worked for this secretive government programs, but they needed a way to try to make universal the programming language, not having to completely modify your code to run it on other machine, a compiler that allowed more people to talk to computers, talk in English to machines and not "codes".