A Look At Darwin

Originally posted by dadudemon
Where do you find this strange/unique information? The first computer programmer? No and yes, depends on the definition you use. First hacker? No. Modder? Possibly yes...but it wasn't modding at all. It was improving/adding to a design that wasn't made yet at the request/behest of Babbage (SP?) (So technically not modding at all...in the sense that you mean it.)

And the first programmer would be difficult to pin down. People were writing "useless" algorithms for well more than a thousand years (possibly more). Part of that algorithm writing came "input validation" where the algorithms were checked for weaknesses or errors. Those would truly be the first programmers. (There were mathematicians that wrote many lengthy algorithms that had lots of logic that would be best suited for a programmer.) There were machines that did stuff and were programmable, not doubt. Those were true "computers" and "software."

The real credit goes to an Arab. His name escapes me and I don't feel like looking it up. His name sounds/looks like the TV network Aljazeera...but I remember it being spelled differently. (That sounds like ignorant racism. 🙁 That's not what I mean it to be. )

Anyways, it made sense "pioneer of science - character flaw".

Originally posted by Bardock42
It really depends where you draw the line, it's perfectly fine for him to draw it here, especially since it was done in pursuit of a joke. I am sure that him saying "Ada Lovelance, a 19th century "scientist" who wrote an explanation of Charles Babbage's mechanical "computer" although not the first in a line of people creating algorithms to solve problems, and also having never had them truly tested during her lifetime, was a woman" would have had the same impact though.

Anyways, it made sense "pioneer of science - character flaw".

Did you catch the edit in my last post or something? I deleted it real quick...but I did mention something to the effect of, "I may be missing something, as usual, that Bardock caught and could explain."

Not odd at all, in a good way, that you chimed in with your take, even if you didn't see my original post before the edit.

But, yes, the actual joke was not the point of "reply post."

Originally posted by inimalist
Ava Lovelace, the worlds first modder and hacker, was a woman of all things

Alan Turing, who developed the modern computer, is gay; and Lynn Conway, who invented the modern microchip, is transgender.

whats with all the cripples in computer science?

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Alan Turing, who developed the modern computer, is gay; and Lynn Conway, who invented the modern microchip, is transgender.

Reminds of this silly protester....

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