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History of Feminism

Binkie The Clown

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1. Back in 1967 I had a picture hanging on my office wall

Reply to FrodosPet (Original post)

Sat Oct 10, 2015, 01:01 PM

Oct 2015

of Grace Hopper pulling her little red wagon loaded with boxes of punch cards down the halls of the Pentagon. All us old-fashioned COBOL programmers idolized her.

But, don't forget that before her was the author of the very first programming manual ever, and the first recorded instance of a programming algorithm: Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace. (1815-1852)

...chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. Her notes on the engine include what is recognised as the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a machine. Because of this, she is often regarded as the first computer programmer.

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