[lace] Computer coding

Ahh yes, Ada Lovelace! I knew about her long before I discovered lace! Our company and my group in particular was an early adopter of the Ada Programming language back in the early 1980’s. It was fun to learn a female was one of the first computer programmers! Anita Hansen - To unsubscribe

Re: [lace] Computer coding

On Sun, 20 May 2018 at 10:20 AM, Gilian Dye wrote: > It is often forgotten that one of the earliest computer programmers was a > woman - Ada Lovelace... Ironic to this discussion that her surname was Lovelace 🙂 Karen in Malta > > > - > To unsubscribe send email to

[lace] Computer coding

It is often forgotten that one of the earliest computer programmers was a woman - Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron - who in the 1840s did much of the work that led to Charles Babbage's *Analytical Engine*, widely considered to be the first computer. Also Jacquard cards (basically computer