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The legitimate daugher of the poet Byron, Ada Countess of Lovelace, was the world's first programmer. In 1842 she wrote her now classic comment: “The Analytical Engine has no pretentions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform”. Lady Lovelace proved that even in the last century women have the right kind of brain to deal with the intricacies of computer work.

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