[didgeoridoo]

> Mrs Lovelace was coding in an age when even few men were

It's even better than that. Ada was coding before there were COMPUTERS.

Also see Bret Victor's rant on creating the future: "In 1968 — three years before the invention of the microprocessor — Alan Kay stumbled across Don Bitzer's early flat-panel display. Its resolution was 16 pixels by 16 pixels — an impressive improvement over their earlier 4 pixel by 4 pixel display. Alan saw those 256 glowing orange squares, and he went home, and he picked up a pen, and he drew a picture of a goddamn iPad." http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...

[delinka]

Your link is worthy of its own submission. Found it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6325996

[jaimebuelta]

True. I'd say "Mrs Lovelace was coding before any men were".

She was first. coder. ever.