Re: Article on Ada (the person)

[Jerry Petrey <jdpetreyNOSPAM@west.raytheon.com>]

Ted Dennison wrote:
> 
> I had always heard that "Ada Byron is commonly considered the first
> programmer". But I had never really heard a good rationale for this.
> 
> There's a great page/online book on the history of computing at
> http://www.warbaby.com/FG_test/comp_history.html , which has a couple of
> very enlightening paragraphs on the subject.
> 
> --
> T.E.D.


She even wrote a program for computing Bernouilli's numbers to run on
Babbage's machine.  Too bad he could never get the hardware to run.
Isn't that just like hardware engineers - always holding up our
software :-)

Jerry

PS For a good biography of Ada (including many of her own letters to
Babbage) look at the book "Ada: The Enchantress of Numbers".

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