You're correct. *Yes, I was aware of Ada Lovelace, but what
fascinated me about this is that it was the first working
computer program that was used. Nobody heralds it. *I mean
people herald efforts even before Ada Lovelace; the predecessors
of Babbage were programmable knitting machines and the like fed
by paper-tape. But here's the first program of our era that was
used. *There's no mysterious mythological mechanical beast of a
machine to inspire our imaginations about the forward thinking
man who never completed his work and his beautiful programmer
friend. Rather, it's just a simple program that did something
that's in a DIRECT LINE to us today. *No gap. *Part of the same
lineage. that's what makes this stand out for me.
