Talk:Ada Lovelace
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Lots of people want to credit her with having written the first computer program or being the first computer programmer, but I think that honor should go to a different person ... possibly also a woman, by the way. --Ed Poor Talk 17:07, 4 April 2011 (EDT)
- Please put back the reference to Admiral Grace Hopper. There is a dispute, and until (or unless) we can get to the bottom of it let's outdo Wikipedia and apply some NPOV here.
- Hopper wrote working code. Ada Lovelace wrote a lengthy article, some notes which described an algorithm. There's a difference between doing that and actually writing a computer program. For instance, where's her source code?
- I know it's trendy to give her credit, but if it's not true it shouldn't be here. If feminists want to say she was way ahead of her time, fine: let's describe exactly what she did, but no "stretchers" please (with apologies to Mark Twain). --Ed Poor Talk 18:27, 5 April 2011 (EDT)
