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Came here looking for the first “hello world!” Program, ended up learning something.
by TravelTechGuy 8y ago
Came 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]. "