From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3ac8f71f0281d224 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-22 11:27:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3E2EF0A8.2090300@acm.org> From: Jeffrey Carter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada movie, was Computer History Museum, UPCOMING EVENTS References: <7arX9.657187$GR5.488058@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 19:27:53 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.9.17 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1043263673 63.184.9.17 (Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:27:53 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:27:53 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:33353 Date: 2003-01-22T19:27:53+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote: > It was a rather good movie about Ada Augusta Lovelace. Who is this Ada Augusta Lovelace person I keep hearing about? She certainly has nothing to do with c.l.a. Once there was a little girl named Augusta, the only legitimate child of the poet Byron. She was named after her father's half sister. When her mother found out that Byron and his half sister had had an affair, she refused to use the name Augusta for the girl and from then on she was known by her middle name, Ada. When she grew up, Ada married Mr. King and became Ada King. Later Mr. King inherited a title and Ada became Mrs. King, Countess of Lovelace. Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, worked with Babbage and the Ada software engineering language is named for her, but Ada is not her first name nor Augusta her middle; nor is Lovelace a surname, but a part of a title. -- Jeff Carter "We burst our pimples at you." Monty Python & the Holy Grail