UNIX(R) Ada Programming

Preface: 1. Development of the Ada Language: The Ada programming language is named in honor of Augusta Ada Byron, the Countess of Lovelace and the daughter of the English poet Lord Byron. She was the assistant, associate and supporter of Charles Babbage, the mathematician and inventor of a calculating machine called the Analytical Engine. With the help of Babbage she wrote a nearly complete program for the Analytical Engine to compute the Bernoulli numbers circa 1830 [Huskey & Huskey 1980]. Because of this effort, the Countess may be said to have been the world's first computer programmer.