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    Steve Sailer‏ @Steve_Sailer Mar 7

    Steve Sailer Retweeted EvolutionistX

    The Pentagon's ADA programming language, which was intended to be the most important computer language, was named after Ada Lovelace in 1979. So she was fairly famous in the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language) … In her own lifetime (1815-52) she'd been a big celebrity, as had Babbagehttps://twitter.com/EvolutionistXX/status/970896726868537350 …

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    EvolutionistX @EvolutionistXX
    Why was such a famous programmer like Ada Lovelace virtually unknown when I was a child? Is it just because the 80s (era of She-Ra, Princess of Power) was a dark age when people didn't believe women could succeed in STEM?
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      2. Gary Royal‏ @6r0y4l Mar 7
        Replying to @Steve_Sailer

        ADA designed to be "most important language" WTF? It was designed -- and failed -- to manage the production of large computer programs, which by the 1980s had grown to a over a million lines of code. By 2011, the Linux kernel had some 8 mm lines of C code in 35,000 subfiles.

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      3. Gary Royal‏ @6r0y4l Mar 7
        Replying to @6r0y4l @Steve_Sailer

        Windows 10 is estimated to comprise 50 million. ADA was a boondoggle, a language as exaggerated as the importance of its namesake.

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      1. Ian Charboneau‏ @IanCharboneau Mar 7
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        in the geek and science culture in the early 80's Ada Lovelace was not famous this 1990 novel is the first reference to her in culture Many people haven't read Sterling and Gibson but they predicted modernity much better than the famous Sci fi writers of the 60s and 70spic.twitter.com/2lzqHV9tMh

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      1. gringx‏ @NormieDeGuerre Mar 7
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        "Lady Lovelace, no less than Babbage, was profoundly aware that with the invention of the Analytical Engine, mankind was flirting with mechanized intelligence" - I learned of Lady Ada as a computing pioneer as a 90s teen in "Gödel, Escher, Bach" - first published also in 1979

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      1. DGo‏ @Go321D Mar 7
        Replying to @Steve_Sailer

        Her last name was also pretty seductive. Imagine that--smart *and* seductive--just like Hedy Lamarr!

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      1. Alex S.‏ @Alex_94706 Mar 7
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        Ada Lovelace was discussed in my first introduction to computer programming textbook in college (late 80s). Programming chic still hadn't gotten down to elementary & high schools yet at the time.

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      1. anomalyuk‏ @anomalyuk Mar 7
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        The early days of hobby microcomputing (late 70s to early 80s) was very disconnected from professional IT, which only changed when the Apple II and IBM PC started to make their way into business in a big way.

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      1. epobirs‏ @epobirs Mar 7
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        Almost the entirety of Byte magazine, starting in 1976, is available online in PDF form. It serves as a useful point of reference for how personal computing evolved. The difference between 1980 and 1983 is huge in terms of growth and mainstreaming of computing.

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