Lovelaces and Computer Sciences
I met David Gelernter in 1990 (before the Unabomber sent him a mail bomb), when he was producing groundbreaking research in the area of distributed computing at Yale. Someone asked Dr. Gelernter why the distributed language he had created was called Linda.
See, Ada Lovelace was an assistant to Charles Babbage, the father of Computer Science, and is hailed as the first computer programmer ever. The computer language Ada is named after Ada Lovelace.
Gelenter was a young graduate student when he created a new distributed programming language and the another Lovelace, Linda Lovelace, was in vogue, so he called it Linda.
Now you know.
