ubergeek77's Lemmy
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
Aboel3z@programming.dev to Programming@programming.dev · 2 years ago

Ada Lovelace: What did the first computer program do?

www.blobstreaming.org

external-link
message-square
11
fedilink
50
external-link

Ada Lovelace: What did the first computer program do?

www.blobstreaming.org

Aboel3z@programming.dev to Programming@programming.dev · 2 years ago
message-square
11
fedilink
Have you ever wondered what did the first ever computer program do? The first ever piece of code was written in 1842, well before the first actual machine that could be called a computer (you wouldn’t call it a computer if you saw it). Author of that program was
  • swordsmanluke@programming.dev
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    edit-2
    2 years ago

    This is apocryphal anyway. There is a bug in Lovelace’s algorithm.

    https://twobithistory.org/2018/08/18/ada-lovelace-note-g.html

    The article is fascinating, but if you just want to jump to the end…

    bug

    one line of the algorithm has the variables swapped! It calculates v5 / v4 instead of v4 / v5. Not bad considering there wasn’t a computer to run her code on yet, much less a debugger.

    • Eager Eagle@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      2 years ago

      yassss

      go Ada!!

Programming@programming.dev

programming@programming.dev

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!

Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person’s post makes sense in another community cross post into it.

Hope you enjoy the instance!

Rules

Rules

  • Follow the programming.dev instance rules
  • Keep content related to programming in some way
  • If you’re posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don’t want to watch videos

Wormhole

Follow the wormhole through a path of communities [email protected]



Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 184 users / day
  • 975 users / week
  • 2.46K users / month
  • 7.61K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 21.3K subscribers
  • 2.31K Posts
  • 35.4K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • snowe@programming.dev
  • Ategon@programming.dev
  • MaungaHikoi@lemmy.nz
  • UlrikHD@programming.dev
  • BE: 0.19.7
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org