Gibson and Sterling's fictional Difference Engine makes Babbage's dream reality, but also appropriately credits Lady Ada Byron for expanding on Jacquard loom pattern "programs" to suggest the first programming language.
The modern language ADA is titled so in her honour.
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Gibson and Sterling's fictional Difference Engine makes Babbage's dream reality, but also appropriately credits Lady Ada Byron for expanding on Jacquard loom pattern "programs" to suggest the first programming language.
The modern language ADA is titled so in her honour.