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Re: A code by any other name
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Mon, 19 Feb 2001 04:29:55 GMT
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> Ada died in 1852 so we can say that the term 'coding' is at least 150
> years old and since she was the daughter of Lord Byron (one of Englands
> greatest poets), we may imagine that her command of the English language
> was pretty good.
Thanks for the history lesson. I had no idea it went back that far. I
had imagined mid 1940's maybe. You learn something new every day.
Matthias Jetleb
VA3-MWJ
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| (...) Ada Lovelace (whose Biography all programmers should read BTW) called it 'coding'. She was the very first programer who was writing programs for the (never completed) Babbage 'Analytical Engine'. She invented things like subroutines, (...) (24 years ago, 17-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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