ada lovelace

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ada lovelace - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Ada Lovelace
  
     <person> (1811-1852) The daughter of Lord Byron, who became
     the world's first programmer while cooperating with Charles Babbage
      on the design of his mechanical computing engines in
     the mid-1800s.
  
     The language Ada was named after her.
  
     ["Ada, Enchantress of Numbers Prophit of the Computer Age", Betty Alexandra Toole (http://well.com/user/adatoole)
     ].
  
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     (1999-07-17)