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Biographer Martin Campbell-Kelly says that she was "a computer pioneer, if not a programmer as the term is understood today".
Biographer Martin Campbell-Kelly says that she was "a computer pioneer, if not a programmer as the term is understood today".
Some have suggested that Ada could not have been a programmer because, as her Biographer Betty Toole wrote: "Ada certainly did not invent a computer language.".<ref>http://www.salon.com/21st/feature/1999/03/16feature2.html</ref> Toole is correct; no computer language was involved.
Some have suggested that Ada could not have been a programmer because, as her Biographer Betty Toole wrote: "Ada certainly did not invent a computer language.".<ref>https://www.salon.com/21st/feature/1999/03/16feature2.html</ref> Toole is correct; no computer language was involved.
The important point is that the algorithm that Lovelace put in her "Note G" was '''encoded for the purpose of being executed by an automatically controlled digital computer'''. That is, she wrote the first published, surviving computer program designed to solve a real problem.
The important point is that the algorithm that Lovelace put in her "Note G" was '''encoded for the purpose of being executed by an automatically controlled digital computer'''. That is, she wrote the first published, surviving computer program designed to solve a real problem.
==Further reading==
==Further reading==
*[http://www.salon.com/21st/feature/1999/03/16feature2.html Repurposing Ada] - contains several denials (including one by a biographer) that her "Notes" were a [[computer program]]
*[https://www.salon.com/21st/feature/1999/03/16feature2.html Repurposing Ada] - contains several denials (including one by a biographer) that her "Notes" were a [[computer program]]
*[http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html Menabrea's Sketch and Ada's Notes]
*[http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html Menabrea's Sketch and Ada's Notes]
*[http://www.well.com/~adatoole/ Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers: Poetical Science, Betty Toole (e-book)]
*[http://www.well.com/~adatoole/ Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers: Poetical Science, Betty Toole (e-book)]