Another woman computer science first seldom celebrated is Kateryna Yushchenko, who invented a high-level programming language with pointers in 1955, 3 years before FORTRAN: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kateryna_Yushchenko_%28scientist%29" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kateryna_Yushchenko_%28scienti...</a><p>Sadly, being behind the Iron Curtain was likely a primary reason for her relegation to obscurity.