* [COFF] Happy birthday, Ada Lovelace and JFO!
@ 2019-12-09 20:50 dave
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From: dave @ 2019-12-09 20:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
Bit hard to classify this one; separate posts since COFF was created?
Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace (and daughter of Lord Byron), was
born on this day in 1815; arguably the world's first computer programmer and a
highly independent woman, she saw the potential in Charles Babbage's
new-fangled invention.
J.F.Ossanna was given unto us on this day in 1928; a prolific programmer, he
not only had a hand in developing Unix but also gave us the ROFF series.
Who'ld've thought that two computer greats would share the same birthday?
-- Dave
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* [COFF] [TUHS] Happy birthday, Ada Lovelace and JFO!
2019-12-09 20:50 [COFF] Happy birthday, Ada Lovelace and JFO! dave
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From: athornton @ 2019-12-10 4:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
> On Dec 9, 2019, at 1:50 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> Who'ld've thought that two computer greats would share the same birthday?
Well, are there more than 19 of them?
Adam
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* [COFF] [TUHS] Happy birthday, Ada Lovelace and JFO!
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@ 2019-12-13 1:34 ` dave
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From: dave @ 2019-12-13 1:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Tue, 10 Dec 2019, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>> Who'ld've thought that two computer greats would share the same
>> birthday?
>
> Anyone who thinks there are at least 23 greats would bet that way. ;-)
Yeah, I know; I'd temporarily forgotten the Birthday Paradox :-(
-- Dave
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