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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Article on Ada (the person)
Date: 2000/10/06
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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.

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