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Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered "too specialized" for scientific use
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On Apr 8, 4:27=A0pm, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
<spamt...@library.lspace.org.invalid> wrote:
> In <m2tyrnjc5f....@pushface.org>, on 04/07/2010
> =A0 =A0at 08:27 PM, Simon Wright <si...@pushface.org> said:
>
> >Wasn't Ada Augusta's first program an algorithm to compute Fibonacci
> >numbers? That would certainly have been in machine code.
>
> But was it a new algorithm, or merely a transcription of an algorithm tha=
t
> she already knew? And, more important, do you know for a fact that *Robin=
*
> knew about it? Note carefully what I asked and what I didn't ask.

Sorry, can't be bothered. Especially since this thread was all about
algorithms being *implemented* not *developed*.