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disagreements with Sam, and a request
::If you still think Grace Murray Hopper should be referenced in this article, by all means do so. [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 20:21, 6 April 2011 (EDT)
::If you still think Grace Murray Hopper should be referenced in this article, by all means do so. [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 20:21, 6 April 2011 (EDT)
:::Ada Lovelace didn't write code. Also,
:::*It is often suggested that Ada was the world's first programmer. This is nonsense: Babbage was, if programmer is the right term. [http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/babbage/ada.html]
:::People who promote [[women in science]] have been calling Ada Lovelace the first programmer to get a [[role model]] for girls. It hasn't been working: the computer science is still dominated by men, despite no evidence of discrimination against women.
:::Also, Hopper didn't '''coin''' the term "bug". She may have been the first to apply it to a computer problem, though.
:::If you want to help, stop editorializing and do some of the research, okay? --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 12:11, 7 April 2011 (EDT)