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1990'sguy

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SamHB

→‎Why is there controversy about this?: Web link was dead; recovering from Wayback machine; it;s cute.

SamHB

Remove stuff that was only in there to keep Ed Poor from blocking me. We can do better. In fact, we have a lot of good pages on computers now, and this is an important part of that.

DavidB4-bot

HTTP --> HTTPS #3, replaced: http://www.salon.com → https://www.salon.com (2)

DavidB4-bot

Spelling/Grammar Check, typos fixed: 1970's → 1970s (2), of of → of

DavidB4-bot

clean up & uniformity

Aschlafly

Reverted edits by GregW (talk) to last revision by SamHB

GregW

testies

SamHB

Tagged refs sure are fussy!

SamHB

trivial stuff

SamHB

Major rework. I hope this is acceptable.

WilliamB1

sp

FrederickT

fixed layout

Ed Poor

→‎Further Reading: enabrea's Sketch and Ada's Notes

Ed Poor

Toole: a plan for how the engine might calculate Bernoulli numbers is now regarded as the first "computer program."

Ed Poor

→‎References: Repurposing Ada - debunks the "first computer programmer" myth

Ed Poor

→‎Was Ada really first? Was the Bernoulli program the first program?: Certainly a co-author of the notes and a software development pioneer

Ed Poor

ref for Ada's "description" of the recurrence relation

Ed Poor

became famous in the modern era for her description of the "classic recurrence relation for computing Bernoulli numbers" used by Jakob Bernoulli

SamHB

Try this version.

SamHB

Ummm... edit conflict! I'm just going to overwrite you for now, see talk. Sorry.

Ed Poor

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Ed Poor

"one of the first" - not the first - if you consider her translation and notes to be a computer program

SamHB

Some didn't appreciate my attempt at humor. Trees, meet forest. Forest, meet trees.

SamHB

Show more of the program; illustrate its stilted language.

SamHB

Big expansion, hopefully addressing some of the controversy.

SamHB

Try again.

SamHB

Fix what I broke, and improve. Thanks, Andy, for fixing the IP block, or whatever it was!

DMorris

fixing reference

DMorris

fixing image

SamHB

This proxy has got to go!

SamHB

Change refs. See talk. Would someone please fix the Sci Am ref? My proxy can't get through the captcha, and my home is blocked.

Ed Poor

I think Admiral Hopper deserves this credit ... let's not support all this feminist historical revisionism

Ed Poor

feminists call her that, but what about Grace Hopper?

Ed Poor

a plan for calculating Bernoulli numbers ... probably not the same as a "computer program" - see talk

Tzoran

added some basic notability information and a reference

TerryH

Reverted edits by IblannkPAGES (Talk) to last version by Philip J. Rayment

IblannkPAGES

Blanked the page

Philip J. Rayment

Corrections

Philip J. Rayment

Ada Augusta moved to Ada Lovelace: Was incorrect name

Colest

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Jaques

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HeartOfGold

{{DEFAULTSORT: Augusta, Ada}} Please see Conservapedia:Manual_of_Style#Persons for information regarding this edit.

Jaques

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Jaques

New page: '''Ada Augusta''' was the wife of Charles Babbage. She learned to operate the Analytical Engine built by Charles Babbage, and is widely considered to be the world's first computer pro...