Just bet the history books will call HER Ada-m.

from Jim’s Rant: 

In theory, computer languages came into being after WWII. The first generally accepted language was Assembler, a true machine language. After that came Fortran, a science language and COBOL, a Finance & Business language. Then there was Pascal followed by a multitude of offshoots of those.

In the mid 80s I studied a language called ADA which was recently created by the Department of Defense to “replace” a hundred other languages, which it failed to do. ADA incorporated the best attributes of all the other languages, making it a virtual average language.

So here’s the time line: Assembler arrived around 1945, followed by Fortran, Pascal and COBOL. All of these were written by a bunch of brainy men in ivory towers or labs at Bell Laboratories, IBM, Cambridge University and Remington Rand. But note that all languages after Assembler are based on Assembler and use Assembler as its root. In a way, all languages after Assembler just make in easier to use Assembler, a difficult language.

Here is my real point in all of this. All computer languages after 1945 are based on Assembler. Assembler itself is based on computer math logarithms written in 1843, one hundred years before 1945, by Ada Lovelace, the recognized first programmer, and she was “just a girl”!

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