Pick up a copy of George Dyson's Turing's Cathedral, and you may be left wondering whether this notion even makes sense. Before even Babbage, Leibniz was obses

Pick up a copy of George Dyson's Turing's Cathedral, and you may be left wondering whether this notion even makes sense. Before even Babbage, Leibniz was obsessed with developing a notation for a universal language that could be used to program a mechanical structure using marbles.