• ElmAndYew@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Don’t forget Ada Lovelace, the first computer engineer and the namesake of the Ada programming language.

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      She was a okay mathematician that did indeed “get” Babbages nonexistent machine (I forgot the name of it, analytic engine?). She wrote incredibly simple software for it. Who knows what she would have accomplished if she had a proper computer, but she didn’t and we’ll never know.

      In the immediate Postwar years there were indeed some gifted women in the field, but they were never the majority.