From: "Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Happy birthday Lady Ada - on Google!
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 02:03:43 +0100
Date: 2012-12-11T02:03:43+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.wo4nwhidule2fv@cardamome> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ka55s8$svu$1@dont-email.me
Le Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:24:23 +0100, Jeffrey Carter
<spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> a écrit:
> On 12/10/2012 01:47 AM, J-P. Rosen wrote:
>> Google's little picture of today is celebrating our favorite Lady's
>> birthday. Have a look!
>
> Also our favorite language, born today in 1980.
>
Ah yes, indeed. Wikipedia says:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)#History
> The Military Standard reference manual was approved
> on December 10, 1980 (Ada Lovelace's birthday), and
> given the number MIL-STD-1815 in honor of AdaLovelace's birth year.
--
“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” [1]
“Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-10 8:47 Happy birthday Lady Ada - on Google! J-P. Rosen
2012-12-10 12:09 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-12-10 15:42 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-12-10 17:24 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-12-10 18:41 ` AdaMagica
2012-12-10 22:04 ` Hans Vlems
2012-12-11 10:16 ` Ken Thomas
2012-12-10 23:40 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-12-11 1:03 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) [this message]
2013-01-07 18:59 ` Anh Vo
2013-01-08 3:03 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-08 15:59 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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