Posted: Apr 23, 2015 6:15 pm
by DougC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32381527
B.B.C. Article
Ada Lovelace has a good claim to be the first ever computer programmer.
She wrote the algorithm for Charles Babbage's analytical machine, a machine that was the forerunner of today's computers, but was never actually built.

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