[TUHS] Happy birthday, Grace Hopper and J.F.Ossana!
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Sun Dec 10 09:02:16 AEST 2017
As promised :-)
Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace (and daughter of Lord Byron),
was born on this day in 1815; arguably the world's first computer
programmer and a highly independent woman, she saw the potential in
Charles Babbage's new-fangled invention.
J.F.Ossanna was given unto us on this day in 1928; a prolific programmer,
he not only had a hand in developing Unix but also gave us the ROFF
series.
Who'ld've thought that two computer greats would share the same birthday?
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
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