Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by dvdhsu 4811 days ago
> who were called to be the first programmers of ENIAC.

Interestingly, Ada Lovelace, also a woman, is considered the first programmer. She wrote a program to compute the calculate "a sequence of Bernoulli numbers with [Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine]." [1]

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_lovelace