The first program and the first programmer

I was browsing the Encyclopædia Britannica and I landed on Ada Lovelace, from my college years I knew that the Ada programming language was named in her honor and I knew that she is consider the mother of programming, but the details have slipped me: Ada wrote an article on Babbage analytical engine, in there she suggested a "plan" for using the engine to calculate Bernoulli numbers (all this happened circa 1843), because of this  Ada Lovelace is considered the first programmer and the first program is Ada's plan. A version of such program in C++ can be downloaded here and this is one of those moments when I wish I had the time for writing a C# version or may be even a Haskell version of it.

Trivia: according to the Wikipedia, you can see Ada's image on Microsoft authenticity hologram.

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