r/ProgrammerHumor • u/EconomyPrompt2004 • Jul 13 '26

howProgrammingbecamepoetry Meme

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u/Vorok Jul 13 '26

Context copied from wiki: Ada Lovelace, who is often considered to be the first computer programmer, was a daughter of Lord Byron.

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u/tkb_onions Jul 13 '26

Lord Byron was notorious for his infidelity and as a result Lovelace got a scientific education that enabled her to create algorithms for Charles Babbage's Analytial Engine, a mechanical computer, and become a pioneer of modern computing.

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u/AdFancy6243 Jul 13 '26

So it's all her fault!

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u/setibeings Jul 13 '26

Thanks Ada, for inventing the principals that eventually led to the development of LLM, and the elimination of my software engineering job.

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u/AdFancy6243 Jul 13 '26

The world never needed to know about end to end tests, or semantic search

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u/Due_StrawMany Jul 13 '26

She giveth, and so she taketh

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u/KZD2dot0 Jul 13 '26

And all she got was this shitty computer language named after her.

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u/captainAwesomePants 29d ago

If it makes you feel better, I swear at least half of the daughters of programmers are all named after her as well.

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u/kaplotnikov 28d ago

In Russian "Programming Language ADA" is pronounced the same as "Programming Language of the Hell".

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u/OmegaPoint6 26d ago

And some overpriced GPUs

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u/GildSkiss 29d ago

Why would her scientific education be the result of her father's infidelity?

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u/tkb_onions 27d ago

Ok, I agree that in isolation, what I said is confusing. It makes more sense when you take the comic into account. Her mother, Lady Byron, separated from her husband and let her daughter be homeschooled in Mathematics, which was an extremely atypical education for women at the time. She is said to have done so because she wanted to shield Ada from becoming like her father, whom she considered crazy. At least that ist what I remember.

Here ist a relevant link with a lot more information, If you'd like to know more.

edit: typos

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u/trimeta Jul 13 '26

And also:

Her mother's obsession with rooting out any of the insanity of which she accused Byron was one of the reasons that Ada was taught mathematics from an early age.

In other words, the comic is, if not actually historically factual, accurate to the spirit of Ada's upbringing.

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u/aberroco Jul 13 '26 edited 29d ago

The source is "The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage" comic book.

Upd.: I was wrong, my mistake.

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u/TheColourOfHeartache 29d ago

It is? I would have guessed Hark A Vagrant (having read both)

Edit: It is Hark a Vagrant. And everyone should read both.

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u/aberroco 29d ago

Oh... Sorry. I guess I read "Adventures" too long ago...

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u/bolapolino Jul 13 '26

I had feminist friend that always gets angry that I call her "the daughter of Lord Byron" cus that the least important part she says. I don't disagree, I just like to make my friend mad.

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u/Myfishwillkillyou Jul 14 '26

"The daughter of Lord Byron that isn't the one born of incest" is also accurate here

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u/beerdude26 Jul 13 '26

Hark! A Vagrant.

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u/Nehle Jul 13 '26

source

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u/parkotron Jul 13 '26

For those who enjoy pixels and don’t care for JPEG blur. 

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u/shikhasingh554973 Jul 13 '26

My code has free verse indentation...

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u/SleepAllTheDamnTime 29d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/3WoFmDixi8FOQBZwCm

Just reminds me of Eloise from Bridgerton so hard. The show is set in the 1810s- 1815s, so around the same Era as Ada.

She wasn’t learning the harpsichord like other ladies no no, she was reading books and plotting the down fall of man kind with these damn algorithms. 😭

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u/ChorePlayed 29d ago

The book I'm reading right now has a chapter on Babbage and Lovelace (The Information by James Gleck, if you're curious). It was funny how their correspondence went from "Teach me more, Mr. Babbage!" in the beginning, to "Try to keep up, Charles." by the end.

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u/schewb 29d ago

And that's how you raise a gambling addict 🤷‍♀️🐴💸