art, i think eniac 6 would make an excellent name for an all-girl punk band. i'm looking at the front row over here. please run with it. i have the t-shirt already made. 6 were the time the eniac working during the war and shortly after, software wasn't a word. neither was programmer. so what these women did was vaguely referred to as coding or operating, like a telephone operator. eniac 6, betty snyder, called their job a cross between an architect and a construction engineer. so there was no name for what they did or no clear definition. although this comes pretty close to defining what programming is like even today. but it was through the work of women like betty snyder and her contemporaries defining the role of programming, defining the state-of-the-art, defining how it would work both during and after the war, that programming became something with its own value, a value that was separate from the menial manipulation of hardware. because of them, it became a language. it became many languages. it became an art form. after the war, grace hopper and her p

although the moniker eniac 6 was used to obscure their individual contributions, i think eniac 6 would make a infernal girl punk band. i'm looking at the front row over here -- all girl punk band. i'm looking at the front row over here. during the war and shortly after, software wasn't a word. neither was programmer. what these women did was referred to as coding or operating, like a telephone operator. one of the eniac 6 called their job a cross between an architect and a construction engineer. there was no name for what they did or no clear definition. it comes pretty close to defining what programming is like even today. it was through the work of women like betty snyder and her contemporaries defining the role of programming, defining the state-of-the-art, how it would work both during and after the war that programming became something with its own value, a value that was separate from the menial manipulation of hardware for. because of them, it became many languages. it became an art form. after the war, grace hopper and her peers went on to careers in the early computer industry