Comic #2460: 2012-02-10

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Panel 1: Text: Hi. I’m Grace Hopper, 1906-1992.

Panel 2: Text: You may never have heard of me, but I was a computer scientist and a rear admiral.

Panel 3: Text: I helped build the Mark I during World War 2.

Panel 4: Text: And the group I headed created FLOW-MATIC, the precursor to COBOL.

Panel 5: Text: You may not know me, but you should fear me.

Panel 6: Text: You see, whenever someone says, “Women can’t program,” I grow more powerful.

Panel 7: Text: I use my powers to affect computer scientists with bad social skills and weird patterns. Yes!

Panel 8: Text: If I grow much more powerful, I will take physical form and my wrath will be without bound!

Panel 9: Text: HA HA HA, HA HA HA HA HA!

Panel 10: Text: AHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Panel 11: Text: HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Panel 12: Text: What’ll she do in physical form?

Panel 13: Text: She will remove all the commenting on someone else’s code just before it’s handed to you for debugging. HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Panel 14: Text: We’ll be good.

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