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http://www.youtube.com/user/Tragedienne3 For more information on Charless Babbage, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babage The contention: Ada Lovelace, an impressive mathematician, and one of the few people who fully understood Babbage's ideas, created a program for the Analytical Engine. Had the Analytical Engine ever actually been built, her program would have been able to calculate a sequence of Bernoulli numbers. Based on this work, Lovelace is now widely credited with being the first computer programmer.[23] In 1979, a contemporary programming language was named Ada in her honour. Shortly afterward, in 1981, a satirical article by Tony Karp in the magazine Datamation described the Babbage programming language as the "language of the future".[24] The truth is that the case for Ada Lovelace is overstated, her importance to computing trumped up. The readings were taken from page 166 of The cogwheel brain by Doron Swade. I recommend the book: http://www.amazon.com/Cogwheel-Brain-Doron-Swade/dp/0316648477/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238481333&sr=1-1