TIL that the first computer programmer was a woman. Her name was Ada Lovelace.
TIL that the first computer programmer was a woman. Her name was Ada Lovelace.
Ada Lovelace, English mathematician, an associate of Charles Babbage, for whose digital computer prototype, the Analytical Engine, she created a program in 1843. She has been called the first computer programmer. Ada Lovelace Day, the second Tuesday in October, honors women’s contributions to scienc...
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Okay I don't have the time to research this, but if this is the reason Adafruit is called Adafruit then that is fucking sick
It is indeed. It’s based off the founders online username “LadyAda” which was an homage to Ada Lovelace. The founder is Limor Fried, she’s pretty awesome.
There’s also a programming language originally used for missile guidance called Ada, I had to learn it in university back in the dark ages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)
Please know I’ve never designed missile guidance systems.
You weren’t at York were you?
I was not Dave
Long shot. I also learnt Ada. York’s justification was that “nobody would know it already, so nobody’s got an advantage” :)
Our justification was that Ratheon and Lockheed Martin held recruitment seminars and actively wanted this language to programme their avionics and guidance systems.
I learnt it but then did my industrial placement with the Red Cross working out ways to map land mine fields autonomously, because fuck the war machine.
Pretty sure the founder even goes by Lady Ada as an homage to Ada Lovelace so yes it seems likely.