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Why do Ada Lovelace or Grace Hopper count as forgotten?
by cremno 12y ago
Why do Ada Lovelace or Grace Hopper count as forgotten?
- Dewie 12y agoDoesn't seem that way to me, either. She comes up in any discussion about women and programming (in a historical perspective). She even has a programming language named after her. Ada Lovelace is the Marie Curie of computer science - the canonical example of a woman scientist that is brought up any time one is talking about women being ignored in CS, which makes the fact that she is so famous kind of ironic.
- mkr-hn 12y agoI don't know if it counts if they're only wheeled out as token examples when the topic of women in technology comes up.