From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 08:01:03 +1100 (EST)
Subject: [COFF] In memoriam: Ada Lovelace
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1811270757480.14680@aneurin.horsfall.org>

Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace, was lost to us in 1852 from 
uterine cancer.  Regarded as the first computer programmer and a 
mathematical prodigy (when such things were unseemly for a mere woman), 
she was the daughter of Lord Byron, and a friend of Charles Babbage.

-- Dave