Today there was an interesting article in Helsingin Sannomat.

http://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/a1415168967244

The book by Mary Somerville, that is mentioned in the article is in the public domain and available, as many other old and interesting books, through the Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/details/onconnexionphys00somegoog

I was particularly impressed by the preface written in the 1830’s:

In one of the comments in HS a reader writes that programming is boring… I disagree, just coding may be boring, but designing software and algorithms is anything but boring!

Another reader correctly says that Ada is not a super-computer langauge. In a way it was ment to be when it was designed, but in the sense of being a tool for creating reliable and bug-free software. However, as some other languages designed by a commitee it ended being too complex and inconsistent, and because of this difficult to use as a general purpose language.