[Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers?

Richard O'Keefe ok at cs.otago.ac.nz
Sun Mar 28 02:08:46 EDT 2010


On Mar 28, 2010, at 9:52 AM, Luke Palmer wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Peter Verswyvelen  
> <bugfact at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So the first computer nerd was.... a women??!!! ;-) ;-) ;-)
>
> Yeah, and she was so attractive that the entire male gender spent the
> next 50 years trying to impress her.

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace
Ada Lovelace day was last week.

She was a *real* programmer: had to figure out how to program
the machine before it was built.



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