Was a work of Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage inspiration for pioneers of modern computing?

According to Wikipedia:

Ada is a programming language designed a team led by Jean Ichbiah at Honeywell under contract to the US Department of Defense from 1977-1983 to supersede over 450 programming languages then used by the DoD then.

Given the name, we can certainly see that people were inspired by Ada's example. In fact, the Military Standard reference manual was approved on 10th Dec, 1980 - which is Ada's birthday - or to give her full title: Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, nee Byron.

(Although the Wikipedia article rather sneers at it for being a bulky and cumbersome language, at the time it was an innovative language and compact given just how many languages it was designed to supersede. I might add, one might want to take a look under the hood of Windows, or Visual Basic to see a modern bulky language. They also sneer at it for being designed by committee. Of course, if they used their eyes and heads they ought to notice that committees are rife everywhere. In modern commercial parlance they are not called committee's - they are called teams).

It's worth noting, given its military origins, that it was adopted as an open standard by ANSI in 1983 - not much later after the design and implementation work on the language had finished. Moreover, given its design objectives it was successful as the number of ad-hoc languages dropped from 450 to just 37 by the late 90s.