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Diana Merry

American computer programmer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Diana Merry-Shapiro (née Mayhugh; born August 25, 1939)[1] is an American computer programmer.

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Merry-Shapiro was born in Iowa. She graduated from Valparaiso University in 1961.[2]

In the early 1970s, Merry-Shapiro began working as a secretary for Xerox PARC. She shifted from working as a secretary to becoming a computer programmer with PARC's Learning Research Group.[3] As one of the original developers of the Smalltalk programming language, she helped write the first system for overlapping display windows.[4] Merry-Shapiro was also a co-inventor of the BitBLT routines for Smalltalk,[5][6] subroutines for performing computer graphics operations efficiently.

After leaving PARC in 1986, Merry-Shapiro worked as a financial software developer. As of 2003, she was still using Smalltalk as an employee of Suite LLC, a financial consulting firm.[7] Merry-Shapiro retired in 2014.

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Personal life

Merry-Shapiro is a trans woman. She discussed her gender transition and experiences at the Casa Susanna resort in the 2022 documentary Casa Susanna.[1]

Merry-Shapiro was previously married to a woman named Julie before her gender transition.[1] In 1968, Merry-Shapiro married Don Merry; they later divorced. Merry-Shapiro met her current spouse, Carol Shapiro, in November 1986.[2] They live in the New York metropolitan area.

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