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We all know why the Lovelace myth still persists http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/babbage/ada.html http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/babbage/ada.html "It is often sugges
by hackermailman 2y ago
We all know why the Lovelace myth still persists
http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/babbage/ada.html http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/babbage/ada.html
"It is often suggested that Ada was the world's first programmer. This is nonsense: Babbage was, if programmer is the right term. After Babbage came a mathematical assistant of his, Babbage's eldest son, Herschel, and possibly Babbage's two younger sons. Ada was probably the fourth, fifth or six person to write the programmes. Moreover all she did was rework some calculations Babbage had carried out years earlier. Ada's calculations were student exercises. Ada Lovelace figures in the history of the Calculating Engines as Babbage's interpretress"
- consteval 2y agoCan't we let women have this one thing? Like... just this one thing? It's fine. Who knows, a lot of time has passed and I'm sure there's many people who "programmed" and never told anyone. It's fine, let Ada have this. It's dead anyway and we clearly don't have nearly enough women in Computer Science so we can let this one go. We already have 99% of all stuff, we shouldn't get greedy.
- poiuyt098 2y agothat's extremely patronizing to women
- consteval 2y agoSays who? You, all women? Ada Lovelace is a real person. What's patronizing about it? We didn't make her up out of pity for women.
- icambron 2y agoInstead of patronizingly giving women a false hero, instead introduce them to a real one: Klara Von Neumann (yes, that Von Neumann) who was the first coder for what we might recognize as a digital computer in the modern sense. She had to pioneer a lot of stuff!