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I forgot about that sorry. I know only of COBOL that is made by women all other programming languages are pretty much made by men.
by mrkramer 5y ago
I forgot about that sorry. I know only of COBOL that is made by women all other programming languages are pretty much made by men.
- elondaits 5y agoAda is named after a (the first) programmer… not somebody’s wife, daughter or sister.
- andi999 5y agoThere seems to be a slight controversy https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/technology/visionaries/ada-lovelace-original-and-visionary-but-no-programmer/ https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/technology/visionaries/ada-l... (don't ask me how reliable that source is)
- IlliOnato 5y agoIt's very interesting, thanks for the link! But it does not change the point. People who created Ada believed that Ada Lovelice was the first programmer and named the language after her. So it's not named after "somebody's girlfriend". The fact that they were probably mistaken does not change this. It she was brilliant anyway, even if not the first programmer.
- ModernMech 5y agoSome of the earliest languages were made by women, as women were the original (human) computers and then the first programmers.
- mrkramer 5y agoYea true, I know they worked in Telephone Exchanges[1] but both women and men mathematicians were first "computers" for example Alan Turing[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma
- IncRnd 5y agoSmalltalk was definitely created by women (and men, too). That has affected many other languages, including objective-c.