Posted on 01/11/2020 2:04:51 PM PST by nickcarraway
Any relation to Linda Lovelace?
The recent 2 part Nurse Who had Ada as a supporting character.
my first thought/question as well..
From the “chicks can do stuff too” timed-release media dump department.
Ada Lovelace and her contributions to computational science is old news.
So, she wrote algorithms “intended to run” on the Babbage engine that was never finished, and still is proclaimed to be the first programmer. How PC.
Too easy...2nd Response.
“relation to Linda Lovelace”
I would doubt it, Linda was not into mathematics her forte was Anatomy.
I wonder what Ada would have thought of the authors efforts to bring out the story of Ada? Man, what a tediously repetitious botch this,article is!
And Linda would be better compared to Adam Schiff for the same reason.
I wonder if he hurt himself straining so hard to make something out of very nearly nothing.
From a theoretical point of view, Babbage/Lovelace were terribly important. Too bad they never had a machine that worked. Their place in history would have been much more prominent.
... and “Lovelace” was her stage name. She was born Linda Susan Boreman. Her life was actually kinda pathetic. She became a born again Christian and anti-pornography activist.
So she gave up computational mathematic...oh, the *other* one.
Carry on!
The military had the Ada programming language developed in her honor and the Military Standard is based on her birthday
MIL-STD-1815A, MILITARY STANDARD: ADA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE (ANSI/MIL-STD-1815A-1983) (22 JAN 1983) [NO S/S DOCUMENT]., This standard specifies the form and meaning of program units written in Ada. Its purpose is to promote the portability of Ada programs to a variety of data processing systems. MIL-STD-1815 Rev.
As I recall she was rather short. She went to the American West and had quite a conflict with James West and Artemus Gordon. Oh wait....wrong Loveless....
Both persons were filthy rich yet wanted Gov money.
The money the Gov did give could have built 2 warships. What did they spend the money on?
The slide rule was invented in 1622 and got us on the Moon and back.
That’s a wayback. Even before James West flew Corsair’s in WWII.
That’s a wayback. Even before James West flew Corsair’s in WWII.
That’s a wayback. Even before James West flew Corsair’s in WWII.
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