people said univac to mean computer in the 1950's. because the only world in the world who knew how to program are women, they ran the software side of things entirely. they headed the software side of the operation. logical the univac's design, wrote its construction set, custom programs for every client at every installation and debugged those programs when necessary. it was a huge workload and it is because they were so overworked doing this job at the beginning of the commercial computer industry that women at grace hopper and her contemporaries first started bush the art of programming forward by looking for ways to streamline what was becoming a tedious and complex process. during the war, they had coded at the machine level using the most elemental instruction sets. because of their workload, they began to develop the idea of automatic programming, which is a fancy way of saying programmers should be able to step above that helpne level and with the of intermediaries like assemblers and compilers and generators, be able to code