In the 1950s and 1960s, there was an explosion of innovation in programming languages. Programmers went from programming in assembly language and machine code, to writing programs in higher-level, portable, languages. Pioneers like John Backus, Jean Sammet, and Grace Hopper had the foresight to see what is now common knowledge: software is at the core of technology, and improving the speed and cost of software development would accelerate the rise of computing, and rise of the world’s economy.| kiro.dev