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by hidelooktropic 311 days ago
She was long forgotten. Her notoriety is actually a recent phenomenon.
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Yep. She didn't reappear in history until the 1950s when Babbage's papers were reviewed with the increased development of computing as a field of study (and really took off in the 80s when US DOD sponsored the development of the Ada programming language).