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>The whole "First Programmer" schtik comes from
No it entirely comes from "muh womyn in science mkay" schtick. Nothing else.
>Is TAOCP not a programming book too because MMIX doesn't exist?
That is discussing computer science concepts. Concepts that are based on actual used programming practices. MIXAL is artificial for a reason, to discuss concepts. The MMIX is an ideal computer.
I actually studied computer science and we discussed concepts in pseudo-code. They were not meant to be runable, they only had to be mathematically provable. If you had ever written a line of code, you'd know the difference between coming up with an algorithm and actually coding it.
>but it's a reasonable mantle to be handed to her next
Who was the second man on the moon?
>Yes he did, and so did Ada.
Either she wrote the first program, then she's the first programmer, or she did not, then she isn't. Ada did not have the knowledge to come up with own programs without preparation from the concept's creator.
>Nothing among all they did actually laid the foundation of the field of computing.
So what should they be credited for? They did nothing of importance in science for what we use and need today. Everything we have would have existed without them.
Is da Vinci credited as the first Helicopter pilot because he scribbled down a machine with a rotor that he thought maybe could fly?