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From: gore@nucsrl.UUCP (Jacob Gore)
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Subject: Re: "C" vrs ADA
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/ nucsrl:comp.lang.ada / wyatt@cfa.harvard.EDU (Bill Wyatt) /
>Re: the original posting of misinformation about the Countess Lovelace [...]
>
>Jacquard invented the card-programmable loom, and is arguably the first
>hacker, since one of the things he did was to program it to weave a
>portrait of himself! (source: BIT by BIT, Stan Augarten)

I believe Ada Lovelace is credited with the invention (discovery?) of a
programming loop.

Jacob Gore				gore@EECS.NWU.Edu
Northwestern Univ., EECS Dept.		{gargoyle,ihnp4,chinet}!nucsrl!gore