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		hidelooktropic 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A poet's long-forgotten daughter created the first... She was long forgotten. Her notoriety is actually a recent phenomenon.

dc396 3 months ago [–]

Yep. She didn't reappear in history until the 1950s when Babbage's papers were reviewed with the increased development of computing as a field of study (and really took off in the 80s when US DOD sponsored the development of the Ada programming language).

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