When she retired in 1986, she was the oldest officer on active naval duty. 
When she retired in 1986, she was the oldest officer on active naval duty. After a career as a professor at Vassar, she joined the naval reserve in 1943, and would rise to the rank of rear admiral as a reservist. FTP, name this woman, who developed  A-O, the first compiler, Flow-Matic, a language for data processing in business, and helped create COBOL, becoming the first computer scientist to be named TimeÕs Man of the Year.
When she retired in 1986, she was the oldest officer on active naval duty.
Grace Hopper