Then again, by highlighting that "omg she's a WOMAN" who did all
   that stuff, kinda takes away a bit from the accomplishments that
   she did in their own merit. If her name was John Hopper, I
   would've been equally impressed. Had top of the line University
   position in the 1930s, joined WWII at the age of 37 - WAY TOO
   OLD but people were desperate... and her smarts stuck her
   there... and all the good she did for computers, computer
   science - the whole importance of sharing code with each
   other... making the first compiler... that language she
   developed... and her comprehension of thing on a deep functional
   level and with the practical knowledge to "get 'er done"... my
   adoration for her knows know bounds. She fought both corporate
   AND military silo-behavior very successfully, against the forces
   of both profit and the tendencies of "hogging secrets" generally
   speaking in order to get internal military promotions. She was
   like "f that" stuff.

   Were she a man, I would've been equally impressed. Perhaps her
   being female, it's slightly more but really, she's an engineer -
   a mostly genderless creature.