Another big female programmer was Ada Lovelace? Is that her name?
She was some sort of movie star who happened to be a whiz at math.
Apparently did some cypto-analytical work during WWII. Very sharp
lady. Beauty and brains.

ok..jef


On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, John Gardner wrote:

> Grace Hopper comes to mind, a guru on the big iron
> of the 40's & 50's - Adm. Hopper, USN, actually.
> Originated the term "bug" for pgming glitches.
> In the early defense projects women were preferred
> as pgmrs, as they were considered better suited to
> the painstaking nature of the task...
> And howja miss Alice? :)
>
> Regards, Jack
>
>
> > >I know it is Politically Incorrect but this firmly convinced me
> > > of the innate differences there are between men and women.
> > >And this is nowhere better illustrated than this List: there are
> > > no women here.
> > >How many programmers are women - 5% at most I would guess.
> >
> > There are and have been a few women on the PICList, maybe not on this
> > particular thread.
> > The first programmer in th world is said to have been a woman (Countess Ada
> > Lovelace)(she probably wasn't the first actually but she definitiely was
> > well versed in the technology).
>


Jeffrey D. Spears
University of Michigan
College of Engineering

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