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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:50:12 -0500
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Bernd Trog wrote:
> She was lucky, she had never, ever seen languages like C++ ;-)

According to <http://www.math.wichita.edu/history/women/ada.html>,
she and Babbage devised a "fool-proof" method for betting on horses,
and as a result she was plunged deeply in debt.

So like in other aspects of the computer biz, I guess she was also
the first to have a spectacular project failure :-)

Oh, and her work was on the Analytical Engine, a system that never
saw any wide use. Almost prescient naming, wans't it? :-)

I'll duck the brickbats now...