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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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[–] 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...

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.

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

yassss

go Ada!!