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Re:Happy birthday, Ada Lovelace — the first computer programmer by scarmig on Monday December 10, 2012 @07:53PM (#4902520)
Seconded. Lovelace deserves some place in the history books, but her pre-eminence doesn't do those of us concerned with gender justice in computing any good.

Grace Hopper, on the other hand, is a badass by any measure.

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Re:Happy birthday, Ada Lovelace — the first computer programmer by TeMPOraL on Monday December 10, 2012 @08:08PM (#4902567)
Relevant:

- http://blog.jgc.org/2011/09/lovelaces-leap.html

- http://blog.jgc.org/2012/10/marie-curie-day.html

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Re:Happy birthday, Ada Lovelace — the first computer programmer by Surio on Monday December 10, 2012 @09:44PM (#4902791)
Good one.

HN discussion of this blog post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4902787

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