Obviously a super interesting and intelligent historical figure who should be remembered and celebrated for her achievements and contributions to humanity. We definitely should keep celebrating that this woman wrote hypothetical code for a hypothetical computer, that to this day has been bug-free. That’s an achievement.
“In her “diagram of development,” Lovelace gives the fourth operation as v5 / v4. But the correct ordering here is v4 / v5. This may well have been a typesetting error and not an error in the program that Lovelace devised. All the same, this must be the oldest bug in computing. I marveled that, for ten minutes or so, unknowingly, I had wrestled with this first ever bug.”
No idea why would you put so much emphasis on the idea she didn’t make mistakes. It kind of misrepresents (and understates) her achievement for the sake of a sensationalist comment.
Actually, that wasn’t me. That was from the article:
Interestingly, there haven’t been any identified bugs in Ada’s Bernoulli calculation code. Even as she pioneered programming, it seems bugs weren’t part of her invention.
luthis@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
In Ada’s own words: “It is desirable to guard against the possibility of exaggerated ideas…"
Which is why articles like this are so dishonest: historyhit.com/facts-about-ada-lovelace-the-first…
Ada never ‘programmed’ a ‘computer.’
Obviously a super interesting and intelligent historical figure who should be remembered and celebrated for her achievements and contributions to humanity. We definitely should keep celebrating that this woman wrote hypothetical code for a hypothetical computer, that to this day has been bug-free. That’s an achievement.
ExLisper@linux.community 1 year ago
Except it wasn’t. twobithistory.org/…/ada-lovelace-note-g.html
“In her “diagram of development,” Lovelace gives the fourth operation as v5 / v4. But the correct ordering here is v4 / v5. This may well have been a typesetting error and not an error in the program that Lovelace devised. All the same, this must be the oldest bug in computing. I marveled that, for ten minutes or so, unknowingly, I had wrestled with this first ever bug.”
No idea why would you put so much emphasis on the idea she didn’t make mistakes. It kind of misrepresents (and understates) her achievement for the sake of a sensationalist comment.
luthis@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
Actually, that wasn’t me. That was from the article:
So, more weight to my point then.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 year ago
It doesn’t say that she programmed a computer anywhere in the article…
luthis@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
Because of the rewriting of history.
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