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Wed 7 Mar, 2007 11:49 pm
I've read that Ada Lovelace is the worlds first computer programmer of Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. I was wondering why this recognition doesn't go to Joseph Jacquard who designed the worlds first automated loom. The loom could weave different patterns depending on the instruction on the punch card that it was fed. Could these punch cards be considered primitive programs?
Grace Murray Hoper
Perhaps you might want to take a good look at the bio on Grace Murray Hopper,
http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/hopper.html:
This woman was amazing.
I know Grace Hopper was the designer of the first compiler and the first person to discover a computer bug.
bugged
And..she was one of the earliest programmers. She wasn't the first to discover a computer glitch; however, when she/her team found a moth in one the computer's relays, she aptly called it a bug and that nick stuck thereafter.
well according to historians Ada Lovelace designed the first program during the mid 19th century.
One of the earliest programmers
I agree with you. What I stated was that Hopper was ONE of the earliest. She put programming into the modern age.
Re: One of the earliest programmers
Ragman wrote:I agree with you. What I stated was that Hopper was ONE of the earliest. She put programming into the modern age.
I would have to disagree with you all. The first computer programmer that we know about would have to be the creator of the Antikythera device.
It seems to be a computer to show placement of the planets in our solar system on any given day.
Wikipedia
Re: One of the earliest programmers
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