Re: Women conlangers of yrs past

At 4:36 pm +0200 1/5/00, BP Jonsson wrote:
> > >
> > >    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?
Yes.

[snip]

>        If computer langs, however low-level are by definition conlangs,
>then she
>was a conlanger, no?
Guess so  :)

Ray.

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