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=1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_DATE, MSGID_SHORT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!spdcc!husc6!cfa!wyatt From: wyatt@cfa.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,sci.space,sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: "C" vrs ADA Message-ID: <650@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> Date: Sun, 23-Aug-87 14:07:17 EDT Article-I.D.: cfa.650 Posted: Sun Aug 23 14:07:17 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Aug-87 17:36:32 EDT References: <8454@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. for Astrophysics Xref: linus comp.lang.ada:534 comp.lang.c:3732 sci.space:2576 sci.space.shuttle:270 List-Id: Re: the original posting of misinformation about the Countess Lovelace (and C, Unix, and everything else, just about): 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) -- Bill UUCP: {seismo|ihnp4}!harvard!cfa!wyatt Wyatt ARPA: wyatt@cfa.harvard.edu (or) wyatt%cfa@harvard.harvard.edu BITNET: wyatt@cfa2 SPAN: 17410::wyatt (this will change in June)