1947 ENIAC - introduced breakpoints into computer debugging. Also SORT/MERGE

Holberton invented breakpoints in computer debugging. She was one of those who wrote the first generative programming system (SORT/MERGE). Holberton used a deck of playing cards to develop the decision tree for the binary sort function, and wrote the code to employ a group of ten tape drives to read and write data as needed during the process.

Category:
Computer Science - Eniac

Completion Status:
yes

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N/A