On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 18:38 +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:06:08AM +0100, Rob Taylor wrote: > > > mm. I think this is probably a good example of wikipedia sucking. If you > > follow the links at the bottom, you'll find that this is basically the > > opinion of one biographer (Holt). One this does seem certian though, is > > that whether she wrote the algorithms in the notes or not, she almost > > certainly wasn't the 1st programmer, Babbage was, but she was the 1st to > > articulate clearly of the need for separation of program from machine, > > and hence could quite possibly be rightly called the 1st computer > > scientist :) > > Good thing is, if it sucks it can be fixed :) >
I hereby place my above words in the public domain .. =) If anyone fancies playing pingpong with wikipedia, go for it ;) Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
