Re: Women conlangers of yrs past

Yes, she was Lord Byron's daughter, but she was not a conlanger--Ada was named in
her honor, but she didn't develop it.

eli . ishmael@pocketmail.com
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 > >
 > >    Ada, a high level computer programming language, is named after Ada,
 > >Countess of Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron,
 >
 >
 > [etc snipped]
 >
 >
 > I'm well aware of this.  But, however brilliant a programmer she was, she
 > was _not_ a conlanger.
 >
 >
 > She is, of course, one of many outstanding examples of a woman who has/had
 > "an intellect, a rational, analytic, and logical understanding" - masculine
 > traits according to Yaguello.

Was her father *that* Lord Byron?  (There still is one: our newspaper's
London corr. recently was very flattered by being mistaken for him!)
       If she was *his* daughter no wonder she possessed "an intellect, a
rational, analytic, and logical understanding"!
        If computer langs, however low-level are by definition conlangs, then she
was a conlanger, no?


/BP

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