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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace#Controversy_over_contribution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace#Controversy_over_... The previous commenter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace#Controversy_over_contribution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace#Controversy_over_... The previous commenter said that Lovelace didn't have any great influence on later works -- the Wikipedia article you used to bash them for it seems to back that up. Many geniuses don't end up having a lot of influence over later work. It's not an insult to their ability to say so.

rectang 5y ago
If you maintain that the idea of applying a computation machine to purposes besides calculation wasn't particularly "influential", I question the usefulness of whatever definition of "influential" you are applying here. Even one of the critics quoted in the "controversy" section of the Wikipedia article (which isn't about how "influential" she was anyway) grants that much to her: > But [Swade] agrees that Ada was the only person to see the potential of the analytical engine as a machine capable of expressing entities other than quantities.
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