Wednesday, August 20, 2008

'First Programmer'

The world's first programmer was Lady Augusta Ada Lovelace of England. She worked with Charles Babbage who invented the analytical engine, a forerunner of modern computers. She is credited with telling a machine what to do by using punch cards to program algebraic patterns. The US Department of Defense uses a programming language named ADA in her honour.


By the way, Ada Lovelace was the only child of the famous poet Lord Byron.

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