Happy Ada Lovelace Day!

[JoeHill]

CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote: 

> 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, kudos to you for saying what I had been thinking. I would not be
> quite so harsh with Linda Lovelace though. I read her story many years
> ago. She was apparently a victim of an abusive man who exploited and
> coerced her into doing things that she normally wouldn't have done.
> Unfortunately, it's not exactly a unique story. The Wikipedia page about
> her <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Lovelace> has more information.

I find both of you have no sense of humour, and sentence you both to be hung by
the neck until you cheer up.

-- 
J
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