Betty Holberton (far right) Inventor of the #breakpoint 👩💻
Frances Elizabeth Holberton (1917 – 2001) was one of the six original programmers of the computer, ENIAC. The other five ENIAC programmers were Jean Bartik, Ruth Teitelbaum, Kathleen Antonelli, Marlyn Meltzer, and Frances Spence.
Holberton invented breakpoints in computer debugging. In software development, a breakpoint is an intentional stopping or pausing place in a program, put in place for debugging purposes. It is also sometimes simply referred to as a pause.
More generally, a breakpoint is a means of acquiring knowledge about a program during its execution. During the interruption, the programmer inspects the test environment (general purpose registers, memory, logs, files, etc.) to find out whether the program is functioning as expected. In practice, a breakpoint consists of one or more conditions that determine when a program's execution should be interrupted. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Holberton
Public domain image of the ENIAC by the US Army via Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/3Kpo
Betty Holberton (far right) Inventor of the #breakpoint 👩💻
Frances Elizabeth Holberton (1917 – 2001) was one of the six original programmers of the computer, ENIAC. The other five ENIAC programmers were Jean Bartik, Ruth Teitelbaum, Kathleen Antonelli, Marlyn Meltzer, and Frances Spence.
Holberton invented breakpoints in computer debugging. In software development, a breakpoint is an intentional stopping or pausing place in a program, put in place for debugging purposes. It is also sometimes simply referred to as a pause.
More generally, a breakpoint is a means of acquiring knowledge about a program during its execution. During the interruption, the programmer inspects the test environment (general purpose registers, memory, logs, files, etc.) to find out whether the program is functioning as expected. In practice, a breakpoint consists of one or more conditions that determine when a program's execution should be interrupted. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Holberton
Public domain image of the ENIAC by the US Army via Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/3Kpo