Apologies for mis-stating your position. Annoyingly, it's now too late to edit my post. I can delete it instead if you like. I got the impression that it wasn'

Apologies for mis-stating your position. Annoyingly, it's now too late to edit my post. I can delete it instead if you like. I got the impression that it wasn't clear how much she understood of the workings of the DE/AE from reading your blog post, and then some further reading on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_lovelace#Controversy_over_extent_of_contributions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_lovelace#Controversy_over_e...