A poet's long-forgotten daughter created the first algorithm (opens in new tab)

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3 pointshidelooktropic7mo ago3 comments

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She’s hardly long forgotten or forgotten at all.

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

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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pinewurst7mo ago

She’s hardly long forgotten or forgotten at all.

hidelooktropicOP7mo ago

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

dc3967mo ago

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