In a message dated 1/28/2003 10:27:50 PM Eastern Standard Time, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net> writes: > Yes there is. There are a couple of famous ones, one of > whom is famous primarily for modern work that was simply > named after her, and that's pretty much it. Assuming you're talking about Ada here, I suspect we may have already reached the point where more folks recognise her name >from her work with Babbage than have heard of the language named after her. --KG