Re: Re: Article on women and mathematics
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 18:38 +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
> 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 :)
>
I hereby place my above words in the public domain .. =)
If anyone fancies playing pingpong with wikipedia, go for it ;)
Rob
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