Happy Ada Lovelace Day!

[Maureen Thornton]

Were both women not pioneers in their field.  They also both worked with
equipment that was not quite functional.
Maureen

On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 21:18 -0400, Dave Mason wrote:
> I am not without a sense of humour.
> 
> However, I find this thread to be sexist and misogynistic.
> 
> Ada Lovelace deserves a place beside Boole and Babbage as the original
> pioneers of what would eventually become computer science (there are
> those who believe she understood Babbage's work better than he did).  To
> demean that memory by a cheap rif on a name shared with a porn star is,
> well, let's just go with disappointing.
> 
> It's no wonder that people at large still look on computer geeks as frat
> boys, or that young women mostly see no respectful place for themselves
> in computer science.
> 
> ../Dave
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