Reminds me of a funny encounter on a flight last year: just before the doors closed two young SWEs from the airline took the empty seats next to me on staff travel.
They'd recently entered the airline's graduate programme and when the girl told me she'd chosen the name Ada (Asian country where people generally pick their own international non-legal name) I was shocked to discover she had never heard of Ada Lovelace but "knew of" the programming language.
And I am a designer, not an engineer.
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