Ada Lovelace (1811-1852) The daughter of Lord Byron, who became the world's first programmer while cooperating with on the design of his mechanical computing engines in the mid-1800s. The language was named after her. [{"Ada, Enchantress of Numbers Prophit of the Computer Age", Betty Alexandra Toole (http://www.well.com/user/adatoole)}]. [More details?] (1999-07-17)