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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,10e2dbe22d2887d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-10-10 17:06:46 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!paloalto-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!dfiatx1-snr1.gtei.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Larry Elmore" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <8rko04$a1h$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <39E339AE.8388D300@west.raytheon.com> Subject: Re: Article on Ada (the person) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Message-ID: X-Trace: /K49oENWhFik8vABtkrWewaZ664iQpQ/UhRRSWuaXMdL+BWYccbRhN1c1yM7lIAv6xGcoKgJlzOK!9PGFlJ+7b03V+CmIyX7dEqbhjzpDhG/6WM4SDsjqzynNkEJmZCsVN41n1xlO6oVfQ8EIcxKszMAZ!vSQ1/ifN1w== X-Complaints-To: abuse@gte.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 00:06:36 GMT Distribution: world Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 00:06:36 GMT Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:1137 Date: 2000-10-11T00:06:36+00:00 List-Id: Jerry Petrey wrote in message news:39E339AE.8388D300@west.raytheon.com... > > > Ted Dennison wrote: > > > > 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. > > She even wrote a program for computing Bernouilli's numbers to run on > Babbage's machine. Too bad he could never get the hardware to run. > Isn't that just like hardware engineers - always holding up our > software :-) It wouldn't have run anyway, though, since there were some bugs in it. I've got a good article about it somewhere, but it's still in storage and won't be unpacked for at least 3 more weeks. It may have been in "Communications of the ACM" but without being able to look at my (photo)copy, I can't be certain. Larry