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Ada Lovelace: What did the first computer program do? (www.blobstreaming.org)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interestingly, there haven't been any identified bugs in Ada's Bernoulli calculation code. Even as she pioneered programming, it seems bugs weren't part of her invention.

She got this close to greatness tsk tsk

[–] swordsmanluke 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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...

bugone 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

yassss

go Ada!!