On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:06:08AM +0100, Rob Taylor wrote: > mm. I think this is probably a good example of wikipedia sucking. If you > follow the links at the bottom, you'll find that this is basically the > opinion of one biographer (Holt). One this does seem certian though, is > that whether she wrote the algorithms in the notes or not, she almost > certainly wasn't the 1st programmer, Babbage was, but she was the 1st to > articulate clearly of the need for separation of program from machine, > and hence could quite possibly be rightly called the 1st computer > scientist :) Good thing is, if it sucks it can be fixed :) Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>
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