> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Byron > > is something you probably forgot to mention about early programmers ;)
I was somewhat surprised by that article. (I'll admit that I've never read anything about Ada Lovelace until now, so perhaps if I knew more about her I wouldn't've been so surprised.) Previously, I had been under the impression that Ada Lovelace had, herself, been a programmer; the article, however, claims that, "The evidence and correspondence between Lovelace and Babbage indicate that he wrote all of the programs in the notes appended to the Menebrea translation." Furthermore, the article says, "Biographers have noted that Lovelace struggled with mathematics, and there is some debate as to whether Lovelace understood deeply the concepts behind programming Babbage's engine, or was more of a figurehead used by Babbage for public relations purposes." -- hanna m. wallach blog: http://join-the-dots.org/ work: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/hmw26/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
