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Ada Lovelace: What did the first computer program do? (www.blobstreaming.org)
submitted 1 year ago by Aboel3z to c/programming
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A contemporary interpretation of Ada's punch card stack using JavaScript might resemble the following. This version doesn't replicate Ada's code for the Analytic Engine but rather reinterprets the algorithm she employed.

The version of the article I got doesn't include the code‽

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah this seems ripped/copied from somewhere. The text alludes to something between that paragraph and the next one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Also, that text is barely English. Who wrote that?