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Subject: Re: Happy Birthday, Ada!
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On 12/10/2015 10:50 AM, Dirk Craeynest wrote:
> In article <n4cdc8$598$1@dont-email.me>,
> Jeffrey R. Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote:
>> Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ada King, Countess of Lovelace.
>>
>> Usually someone further east beats me to this, but they've fallen down on the
>> job today.
> 
> We're too busy celebrating!  ;-)

You shouldn't celebrate so much you fall down.

Today is also the 35th anniversary of the Ada programming language, MIL-STD 1815
(Ada 80), presented by Ichbiah, Barnes, and Firth at the Ada Launch.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"This trial is a travesty. It's a travesty of a mockery of a
sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham. ...
Do you realize there's not a single homosexual on that jury?"
Bananas
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