Ada Lovelace
<person> (1811-1852) The daughter of Lord Byron, who became
the world's first programmer while cooperating with {Charles
Babbage} on the design of his mechanical computing engines in
the mid-1800s.
The language {Ada} was named after her.
["Ada, Enchantress of Numbers Prophit of the Computer Age",
Betty Alexandra Toole (http://well.com/user/adatoole)].
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(1999-07-17)