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As a rule, I don't do book reviews. My main area of activity is software
development, and I know too many authors. If I started reviewing books it would be an
endless task. So I just don't do it.
But I can't help writing a few lines about The Thrilling Adventures of
Lovelace and Babbage, drawn and written by Sydney Padua. The book is mostly
graphic novel, but with a sizable dollop of fascinating history thrown in. It opens
with a comic book narrative of the collaboration between Countess Lovelace and
Charles Babbage, which explains why we refer to Countess Lovelace as the first
computer programmer.
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