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On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 16:19:30 -0000 (UTC), Dirk Craeynest wrote:

> 2024/12/10: birthday of Lady Ada Lovelace, born in 1815,
> namesake of the #AdaProgramming language.

Came across this comic strip <https://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/> some 
years ago: a contrafactual imagining of the adventures of Lovelace and 
Babbage, getting together to fight crime.

(“Crime” being, in Babbage’s case, music, and in Lovelace’s case, poetry.)