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Ada Lovelace Day: A Celebration of the World’s First Computer Programmer
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| Tuesday 15 Oct 2013
Posted on 10/15/2013 3:08:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
OH! That Lovelace, I had to slow down and reread the title. I just knew it couldn’t be the other one.
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posted on
10/15/2013 3:12:40 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: Mastador1
Me?
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posted on
10/15/2013 3:16:26 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: nickcarraway
Lovelace? Rings a bell, but I don’t think it had anything to do with computers...of course; the memory isn’t what it used to be...
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posted on
10/15/2013 3:19:31 PM PDT
by
who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
To: Mastador1
Have programed in Ada but I really hate to see programming broken down into gender when talking about who or what was the first program/programmer. It just keeps getting so gender related instead of just who or what was discovered - can’t we just agree that the discovery was great, whoever discovered or started the “thing”. Doubt that it will change though, too many invested in gender politics to ever let things go.
Really, does anyone care whether the inventor of anything was a man or woman? How about we just celebrate the inventor regardless of gender!
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posted on
10/15/2013 3:20:33 PM PDT
by
Deagle
(m)
To: Mastador1
The first programmers were at work in 1801.
They set up patterns for the Jacquard loom to turn out complex patterns of cloth.
They even used punched cards to hold the program steps.
Ada Lovelace came much later.
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posted on
10/15/2013 3:20:36 PM PDT
by
Bobalu
(Bobo the Wonder Marxist leads Operation Rodeo Clown against Syria)
To: nickcarraway
Good ol Ada.
Language of languages.
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posted on
10/15/2013 3:23:14 PM PDT
by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/nicolae-hussein-obama/)
To: nickcarraway
Good post.
Over the years, I've worked with six really good female code jockeys who immediately come to mind. All were left-handed.
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posted on
10/15/2013 3:23:15 PM PDT
by
ComputerGuy
(HM2/USN M/3/3 Marines RVN 66-67)
To: EEGator
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posted on
10/15/2013 3:25:53 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Occupy the DC Mall - take back the monuments)
To: EEGator; Deagle; Bobalu
Well EEgator I’m glad you saw the humor in my comment! Sometimes a chuckle is better than taking everything serious.
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posted on
10/15/2013 3:27:17 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: Mastador1
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posted on
10/15/2013 3:29:41 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: ComputerGuy
This is the woman to hold up as an example of what a woman can do with computers.
Grace Hopper...all Navy and a great programmer/mathematician
Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy Rear Admiral. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, and developed the first compiler for a computer programming language.
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posted on
10/15/2013 3:33:17 PM PDT
by
Bobalu
(Bobo the Wonder Marxist leads Operation Rodeo Clown against Syria)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
10/15/2013 3:37:19 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(NRA)
To: Bobalu
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posted on
10/15/2013 3:40:47 PM PDT
by
Bobalu
(Bobo the Wonder Marxist leads Operation Rodeo Clown against Syria)
To: Bobalu
I saw her waving her nanosecond once on TV. She was a hoot. A geek with personality.
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posted on
10/15/2013 3:44:43 PM PDT
by
ComputerGuy
(HM2/USN M/3/3 Marines RVN 66-67)
To: Bobalu
Didn’t she speak about nano seconds?
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posted on
10/15/2013 3:47:31 PM PDT
by
Jane Long
(While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
To: ComputerGuy
Ha! You got me by more than a nano second ;)
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posted on
10/15/2013 3:48:24 PM PDT
by
Jane Long
(While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
To: Jane Long
I think it’s about eleven inches. The nanosecond, that is.
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posted on
10/15/2013 3:52:45 PM PDT
by
ComputerGuy
(HM2/USN M/3/3 Marines RVN 66-67)
To: Mastador1
I thought the same thing until I had to reread
To: Deagle
I agree to a point, but there really aren’t many female inventors or scientist.
It’s nice for technical women to have positive role models.
As a female software engineer, I like Ada Lovelace!
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