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    Babbage invented the computer, Ada invented the programming language that would be used to program it. She even wrote the first ever bug in it.

    https://twobithistory.org/2018/08/18/ada-lovelace-note-g.html

    “In her “diagram of development,” Lovelace gives the fourth operation as v5 / v4. But the correct ordering here is v4 / v5. This may well have been a typesetting error and not an error in the program that Lovelace devised. All the same, this must be the oldest bug in computing. I marveled that, for ten minutes or so, unknowingly, I had wrestled with this first ever bug.”