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.
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Ada Lovelace | Biography, Computer, & Facts
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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
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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.
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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.
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Pretty sure the founder even goes by Lady Ada as an homage to Ada Lovelace so yes it seems likely.
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Grace Hopper invented the compiler!
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Another interesting tidbit is her father was Lord Byron, the famous poet. He actually abandoned her and her mom after birth. This made Ada become more math oriented since her mom wanted her to be independent and a logical thinker.
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she understood that the analytical engine/mechanical computer could be used symbolically, way beyond the numerical calculations that babbage built it for.
she foresaw how powerful that could be. when she was dying (of ovarian cancer), she said i would give all the days i have left for just three days a hundred years from now.
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This was like the first thing we learned in history of computers in university.
I would have guessed you’d have learned about Charles Babbage first