Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by bregma 2669 days ago
In the 1840s when programmable computing devices were first manufactured, 100% of programmers were women. She died about 10 years later.
1 comments

I think one Mr Charles Babbage might disagree with you on that. Also I wouldn't say that any were actually manufactured. The first fully working model of the difference engine was created in the 1990s and as far as I know there never was a working analytical engine.