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More precisely, Lady Lovelace wrote programs for the machine Babbage designed. Whether Babbage could or couldn't write them isn't, to my knowledge, recorded (pr
by lucozade 11y ago
More precisely, Lady Lovelace wrote programs for the machine Babbage designed. Whether Babbage could or couldn't write them isn't, to my knowledge, recorded (presumably he could if he wanted to). The fact that Lady Lovelace did, is.
- peterfirefly 11y agoIt is recorded that Babbage more or less had to spoon feed her. She is way overrated. Which is dumb, when there actually were women who did impressive things in maths, physics, and engineering. Émilie du Châtelet or Philippa Fawcet, for example.
- peterfirefly 11y agohttps://thonyc.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/christmas-trilogy-2012-part-ii-charles-and-ada-a-tale-of-genius-or-of-exploitation/ https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/christmas-trilogy-20... http://www.juliansanchez.com/2012/10/16/much-ada-about-nothing/ http://www.juliansanchez.com/2012/10/16/much-ada-about-nothi...