From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Received: by 2002:ac8:5a91:0:b0:2de:25c5:1d68 with SMTP id c17-20020ac85a91000000b002de25c51d68mr12605405qtc.94.1645948536594; Sat, 26 Feb 2022 23:55:36 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 2002:a25:2e10:0:b0:624:72a4:d938 with SMTP id u16-20020a252e10000000b0062472a4d938mr14459257ybu.559.1645948536423; Sat, 26 Feb 2022 23:55:36 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2022 23:55:36 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=202.67.103.232; posting-account=S_MdrwoAAAD7T2pxG2e393dk6y0tc0Le NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.67.103.232 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Not only a language... From: Robin Vowels Injection-Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 07:55:36 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:63572 List-Id: On Sunday, February 27, 2022 at 5:24:01 PM UTC+11, 25.BX943 wrote: > On 2/25/22 11:42 AM, mockturtle wrote: > > Now also a GPU is named after Ada Lovelace > > https://www.pcgamer.com/nvidias-next-generation-ada-lovelace-gpus-are-rumored-to-consume-scary-amounts-of-power/ > That's nice ... but does it have anything to do with > her thoughts on computing machines ? :-) > > Babbage knew how to build a computer - but he was fixated > on using them to create math tables for navigation and such. . That's how it started, but he progressed to develop an "analytical engine" -- a computer, for which Ada Lovelace wrote programs. . > Lovelace/Byron saw the potential far better - realized that > anything that could in some way be rendered into numbers > could be manipulated by computing machines. > > Poor Babbage ... he had it right, but the hardware of the > time was gears and cogs.