Babbage created the machine and he would not know how to run it? He would not know how to program it? The absurdity of this is astounding. Babbage was the first programmer. There is a google talk about Babbage's machines and the speaker also talked about Ada at the 36 min mark -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K5p_tBcrd0&feature=youtu.be...