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Von Neumann’s First Computer Program (1970)
- cup-of-tea 8y agoWhy are you linking to Twitter and not to the actual paper? http://fermatslibrary.com/s/von-neumanns-first-computer-program http://fermatslibrary.com/s/von-neumanns-first-computer-prog...
- ape4 8y agoFor once the Twitter comments are actually good. A gif of the merge sort and another giving its big-O rating.
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- tuckermi 8y agoDo you have a link to the Twitter comments that you can share?
- slbenfica 8y agohttps://twitter.com/fermatslibrary/status/991301499799195648 https://twitter.com/fermatslibrary/status/991301499799195648
- sp332 8y agoThe video is from http://panthema.net/2013/sound-of-sorting/ http://panthema.net/2013/sound-of-sorting/ and it's been submitted before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7454723 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7454723
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- optimuspaul 8y agothanks a lot, now I have to dig around to find the twitter link. the paper is boring.
- dang 8y agoWe changed it from https://twitter.com/fermatslibrary/status/991301499799195648?s=20 https://twitter.com/fermatslibrary/status/991301499799195648.... The site guidelines ask for original sources (please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), and the Twitter thread doesn't contain that much information.
- TravelTechGuy 8y agoCame here looking for the first “hello world!” Program, ended up learning something.
- MichaelMoser123 8y agoKnuth writing about Neumann - should be more than hello world. I don't know if Turing wasn't a bit earlier than this, or Zuse for that matter.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoFrom the paper: "...we should realize that the historical interest of this program is in great measure due to its connection with the development of instruction codes for stored program computers; it is not the earliest instance of a computer program. We have Lady Lovelace's description of a program for calculating Bernoulli numbers that Babbage wrote for his Analytical Engine [1, Note G]; A. M. Turing's construction [16] of his abstract Universal Machine, which involves many important programming concepts; Eckert and Mauchly's first sample program for the ENIAC [4]; and a collection of numerical programs, dating from 1944, written by H. H. Aiken, G. M. Hopper, R. V. D. Campbell, R. M. Bloch, B. J. Lockhart, and others, for the Harvard Mark I [10, Chs. 4, 6]. "
- dredmorbius 8y agoDirect PDF access w/o "reader" crud: https://sci-hub.tw/10.1145/356580.356581 https://sci-hub.tw/10.1145/356580.356581
- opless 8y agoFYI This triggers my corporate firewall's "protection". YMMV
- SilasX 8y agoYeah, my browser (firefox, OS X) is showing a revoked certificate.
- dredmorbius 8y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16951831 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16951831
- dredmorbius 8y agoMight care to access it from elsewhere. Tor onion address also.
- drzaiusapelord 8y agoAs it should! SEC_ERROR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE Works fine with just http. Click save on the left for the actual pdf. http://sci-hub.tw/10.1145/356580.356581 http://sci-hub.tw/10.1145/356580.356581 Fun metadata as well, this pdf was generated 18 years ago and uses the ancient PDF 1.3 spec.