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=0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,54e679d2d8268186 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: JPWoodruff@gmail.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Happy Birthday Ada Lovelace Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:49:15 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <97ddc376-8bb6-4dd9-875d-7bc6b9a4e311@o6g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.190.119.215 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1197398956 12084 127.0.0.1 (11 Dec 2007 18:49:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:49:16 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=67.190.119.215; posting-account=eLk0BgoAAAA-yA75xm1L7heSizMaESVg User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18899 Date: 2007-12-11T10:49:15-08:00 List-Id: On Dec 10, 2:10 pm, John McCormick wrote: > On December 10, 1815, Anna Isabella (Annabella) Byron, whose husband > was Lord Byron, gave birth to a daughter, Augusta Ada. Thanks for posting birthday regards for our respected progenitor > At one point, Ada wrote to him, > > "I am much annoyed at your having altered my Note. You know I am > always willing to make any required alterations myself, but that I > cannot endure another person to meddle with my sentences." > With this quote there can be *no* doubt that Ada was a programmer! John W