Women conlangers of yrs past

In a message dated 2000/04/22 06:27:28 AM, Ray Brown wrote:

>The fact that one
>has to research harder to find women conlangers of the past is IMHO far
>more to do with the econmomic position of women in society than anything
>else.
    Ada, a high level computer programming language, is named after Ada,
Countess of Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, assistant to mathematician &
computer pioneer Charles Babbage.  She added much to Babbage's original work
(some say she did most of the critical work & that Babbage's fame rests on
her "toil.")