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A poet's long-forgotten daughter created the first algorithm

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3 points by hidelooktropic 4 months ago · 3 comments

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pinewurst 4 months ago

She’s hardly long forgotten or forgotten at all.

  • hidelooktropicOP 4 months ago

    She was long forgotten. Her notoriety is actually a recent phenomenon.

    • dc396 4 months ago

      Yep. She didn't reappear in history until the 1950s when Babbage's papers were reviewed with the increased development of computing as a field of study (and really took off in the 80s when US DOD sponsored the development of the Ada programming language).

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