* Ada died ...
@ 2002-11-27 11:41 Bernd Trog
2002-11-27 13:56 ` Peter Hermann
2002-11-27 14:50 ` Hyman Rosen
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From: Bernd Trog @ 2002-11-27 11:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
... 150 years ago today (November 27, 1852) in London.
Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace, was 36 years old.
Lets take a minute of silence:
Ada developers should stop codening( C++ coders may leave their debuggers.. )
[...]
She was lucky, she had never, ever seen languages like C++ ;-)
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* Re: Ada died ...
2002-11-27 11:41 Ada died Bernd Trog
@ 2002-11-27 13:56 ` Peter Hermann
2002-11-27 14:50 ` Hyman Rosen
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From: Peter Hermann @ 2002-11-27 13:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
Bernd Trog <berndtrog@yahoo.com> wrote:
> ... 150 years ago today (November 27, 1852) in London.
> Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace, was 36 years old.
> Lets take a minute of silence:
> Ada developers should stop codening
> ( C++ coders may leave their debuggers.. )
> [...]
??
> She was lucky, she had never, ever seen languages like C++ ;-)
or better:
Ada developers may stop coding for an appropriate break.
C++ hackers should continue debugging.
--
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* Re: Ada died ...
2002-11-27 11:41 Ada died Bernd Trog
2002-11-27 13:56 ` Peter Hermann
@ 2002-11-27 14:50 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-11-27 15:02 ` Preben Randhol
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From: Hyman Rosen @ 2002-11-27 14:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
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...
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* Re: Ada died ...
2002-11-27 14:50 ` Hyman Rosen
@ 2002-11-27 15:02 ` Preben Randhol
2002-11-27 15:40 ` Hyman Rosen
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From: Preben Randhol @ 2002-11-27 15:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hyman Rosen wrote:
> Oh, and her work was on the Analytical Engine, a system that never
> saw any wide use.
So what? Please tell me a scientific field where the first work was a
big success and widly use.
> I'll duck the brickbats now...
Better to use the bricks to build something better, one brick at the
time.
Some choose to use a poor foundation though, like C++. Perhaps you
should duck from those falling bricks?
--
Preben Randhol ------------------------ http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ --
�1984 is soon coming to a computer near you.�
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* Re: Ada died ...
2002-11-27 15:02 ` Preben Randhol
@ 2002-11-27 15:40 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-11-28 13:47 ` Preben Randhol
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From: Hyman Rosen @ 2002-11-27 15:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
Preben Randhol wrote:
> Some choose to use a poor foundation though, like C++. Perhaps you
> should duck from those falling bricks?
I say Container.
You say Multiprogramming.
Let's call the whole thing off.
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* Re: Ada died ...
2002-11-27 15:40 ` Hyman Rosen
@ 2002-11-28 13:47 ` Preben Randhol
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Preben Randhol @ 2002-11-28 13:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hyman Rosen wrote:
>
> I say Container.
> You say Multiprogramming.
> Let's call the whole thing off.
:-)
--
Preben Randhol ------------------------ http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ --
�1984 is soon coming to a computer near you.�
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