Re: Happy birthday Lady Ada - on Google!

[Hans Vlems <hvlems@freenet.de>]

On 10 dec, 19:41, AdaMagica <christ-usch.gr...@t-online.de> wrote:
> Primeval times when Babbage dwelt:
> not were bit nor byte
> nor operating system,
> not hardware below
> nor above software,
> abyss abundant,
> but computer nowhere.
>
> And lo, there was Ada,
> and Ada separated the numbers
> and split them,
> in Zero and One did she split them.
>
> And there was Zuse,
> and Zuse created the beast Z1,
> which fed on the numbers
> created by Ada,
> and there was absolute joy among mankind.
>
> And mankind created languages
> that they be able to command the creatures
> which fed on the numbers,
> and the numbers were commands
> and the commands were numbers.
>
> And there rose two giants,
> Fortran and Algol.
> And the giants were fruitful and multiplied,
> and sprang from them of languages countless many:
> APL and PL/1,
> Simula and Jovial,
> Lisp and Cobol.
> And Wirth created Pascal and Modula.
> And there were Oberon and Occam and Eiffel,
> C and C++,
> Prolog and Smalltalk.
>
> And there was a great confusion among mankind,
> and one man did not understand the other man's words,
> and some did not understand their own words.
>
> And DoD spake:
> "Let us restore concord among mankind
> and create ONE language,
> that all men speak the same language,
> in the large as in the small."
>
> And there arose Strawman,
> and Strawman begat Woodenman,
> and Woodenman begat Tinman,
> and Tinman begat Ironman.
> Ironman however begat Steelman.
>
> And lo, from him emerged of colours four:
> Red, Green, Yellow and Blue.
>
> And the colours were weighed and found wanting
> except one.
>
> And ANSI spake to Green:
> "Ada shalt be thy name henceforth
> and servest all mankind
> in the large as in the small."
>
> And DoD spake:
> "Thou shalt not have another language beside Ada."
>
> And Ada shone in beauty,
> and it was the day of the Lord
> the 10th of December 1980.
>
> © Copyright 2000 C.K.W. Grein

Thanks, I hadn't come across this poem before.
Hans