Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper. That’s it. Grace Hopper, yes. Ada Lovelace? That’s a stretch. But even if I concede her, that’s a whopping two women “pioneers” in computer science. Versus how many men?
It’s just another case of people who contributed very little trying to share in the glory. Kinda like all those muslim contributions to this country’s founding. Or all those inventions by blacks that make our lives better.
It was men who led this computer revolution. Overwhelmingly. Quit rewriting history to be PC.
Even the history of the PC must be ... PC!
Grace Hopper's teams were all female. I had the privilege to work with "one of Grace's girls" when she was hired to review our department's management practices. She was the head of the FORTRAN validation testing team back in the beginning. We had a blast with that lady. She was off-the-scale smart and kept us laughing all of the time.
She wasn't very pretty, to be polite. She once laughingly told us that the rest of her team were all jealous of her because she was the prettiest one of all.
COBOL and FORTRAN both came into existence because of the efforts of all female teams. Learn to live with it.
It’s just another case of people who contributed very little trying to share in the glory. Kinda like all those muslim contributions to this country’s founding. Or all those inventions by blacks that make our lives better.
It was men who led this computer revolution. Overwhelmingly. Quit rewriting history to be PC.*
It reminds me of how the Soviets claimed to invent almost anything modern because somewhere along the line you could point to some obscure improvement made to a device by a Soviet scientist.
I'm sure that women have made a lot of contributions that we haven't heard of, but unfortunately for the PC storm troopers, most things seem to have been invented by white men. A disproportionate percentage of them seem to have been Scottish or had Scottish ancestry. Dunno why. A lot of days spent inside thinking because the damp days kept them in?