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From: jbg@sei.cmu.edu (John Goodenough)
Subject: Re: Ada Lovelace
Date: 1996/10/21
Date: 1996-10-21T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54gpt3$ok6@news.sei.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Dzn2y9.858@cix.compulink.co.uk



In article <Dzn2y9.858@cix.compulink.co.uk>, zarathustra@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Zarathustra Group") writes:

|> I've been asked by my wife, who is with English Heritage (the 
|> organisation which looks after historic buildings and ancient monuments 
|> in England) for as much detail as I cab provide on the life and work of 
|> Ada Lovelace herself.  They (EH) are preparing a paper for the Lotteries 
|> Commission on the church which holds a monument to her and wish to make 
|> the best possible case they can to repair the monument and bring it to 
|> the notice of the widest possible audience.
|> [snip]
|> 
|> In addition somebody at EH has a view that their is another language 
|> named after her. I must admit, this one has me stumped.

It's true that the language Linda is named after a Lovelace, but this an
entirely unrelated Lovelace, albeit also one of only historical interest
now. :-)

John B. Goodenough					Goodenough@sei.cmu.edu
Software Engineering Institute				412-268-6391






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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-10-21  0:00 Ada Lovelace "Zarathustra Group"
1996-10-21  0:00 ` John Goodenough [this message]
1996-10-22  0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
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1996-10-22  0:00 tmoran
1996-10-24  0:00 Bob Mathis
1996-10-29  0:00 ` Chris Brand
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