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From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [COFF] Happy birthday, Ada Lovelace and JFO!
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 07:13:11 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2012100710200.25789@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)

Sorta relevant to both groups...

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


             reply	other threads:[~2020-12-09 20:13 UTC|newest]

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2020-12-09 20:13 dave [this message]
2020-12-09 23:38 ` grog
2020-12-12  8:39   ` dave
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2019-12-09 20:50 dave

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