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These priorities are not fixed and are indicated in many cases by the data.
Thus we must have a language and a structure that will take care of the data descriptions and priorities, as well as the operations we wish to perform.

— Grace Hopper Management and the Computer of the Future (1962)

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Management and the Computer of the Future (1962)

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