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IIRC Ada Lovelace said about the difference engine that "the remnant may be construed as arithmetical or logical, depending as the supply is construed" which al
by bandrami 4y ago
IIRC Ada Lovelace said about the difference engine that "the remnant may be construed as arithmetical or logical, depending as the supply is construed" which always struck me as a pretty succinct statement of the fundamental theorem of computer science
- bandrami 4y agoAnd for that matter Jacquard in some cases used the punch-holes as control commands for later wefts, which though he never articulated it is the same principle.
- actionfromafar 4y agoSo Jacquard was a PHP programmer or hacker just doing what had to be done to make the thing work, and Lovelace was a computer scientist. :)