Hi, As I understood some biography I read about Ada Byron (sorry, no URL), she suggested to Babbage the need for a formal description of the steps needed for calculation - even if she didn't write the first computer program herself, she probably still invented programming... :-) Babbage himself apparently had problems explaining his invention to others, while Ada was way better at this. So maybe he invented programming, she the first programming language. :-)
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/31240.html this one is a nice read, linked from the wikipedia page. Regards, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
