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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: Computer Old Farts Followers <coff@tuhs.org>,
	The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Ada Lovelace and JFO!
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 07:50:38 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1912100744220.963@aneurin.horsfall.org> (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

             reply	other threads:[~2019-12-09 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-09 20:50 Dave Horsfall [this message]
2019-12-09 22:40 ` G. Branden Robinson
2019-12-13  1:34   ` Dave Horsfall
2019-12-10  4:03 ` Adam Thornton
2020-12-09 20:13 Dave Horsfall

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