Programming is one particular area where many women have left their indelible mark.
Numerous pioneering women have designed and developed programming languages that have had significant, lasting impact on software development.
COBOL was created to run on different computers, and by non-technical people.
IBM had just developed FORTRAN mainly for mathematical computation and scientific computing.
FORMAC becamethe first widely used language for doing symbolic mathematical computations.
Solomon eventually joined M.I.T.s Artificial Intelligence Lab and later oversaw the creation of Apples Logo implementation.
Logo has influenced many later educational programming languages, such as Smalltalk and Scratch.
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