Ada Lovelace (1816–1852)
Birthday: 10 December
The first programmer. Long before there was anything like a computer, only Charles Babbage's theory which she translated to French (with extra notes), she got it – how it would work. This is hard to do when you don't grow up around computers, the idea of computation which surrounds us today and seems obvious had not occurred to anyone. Even Babbage wasn't able to envision it. That's why we say she was the first programmer.
After Babbage refused her offer to work with him, she spent ten years abusing opiates and alcohol (given by her mother who thought she should less cerebral and more ladylike), then died.
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