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