"In her translator's note on an article on Babbage's computer, Ada Lovelace becomes the first person to clearly see that programming a computer is a distinct discipline from building the computer itself. This hardware/software distinction will be so well known as to seem obvious."
https://jeffreykegler.github.io/personal/timeline_v3
@neauoire
And soon thereafter, was born the age old support statement:
-- it's the hardware
-- no, it's the software
🤔 😉