Von Neumann’s First Computer Program (1970)(fermatslibrary.com)
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Von Neumann’s First Computer Program (1970)
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FYI This triggers my corporate firewall's "protection". YMMV
As it should!
SEC_ERROR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE
Works fine with just http. Click save on the left for the actual pdf.
http://sci-hub.tw/10.1145/356580.356581
Fun metadata as well, this pdf was generated 18 years ago and uses the ancient PDF 1.3 spec.
SEC_ERROR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE
Works fine with just http. Click save on the left for the actual pdf.
http://sci-hub.tw/10.1145/356580.356581
Fun metadata as well, this pdf was generated 18 years ago and uses the ancient PDF 1.3 spec.
Yeah, my browser (firefox, OS X) is showing a revoked certificate.
Might care to access it from elsewhere. Tor onion address also.
Came here looking for the first “hello world!” Program, ended up learning something.
Knuth writing about Neumann - should be more than hello world. I don't know if Turing wasn't a bit earlier than this, or Zuse for that matter.
From the paper: "...we should realize that the historical interest of this program is in great measure due to its connection with the development of instruction codes for stored program computers; it is not the earliest instance of a computer program. We have Lady Lovelace's description of a program for calculating Bernoulli numbers that Babbage wrote for his Analytical Engine [1, Note G]; A. M. Turing's construction [16] of his abstract Universal Machine, which involves many important programming concepts; Eckert and Mauchly's first sample program
for the ENIAC [4]; and a collection of numerical programs, dating from 1944, written by H. H. Aiken, G. M. Hopper, R. V. D. Campbell, R. M. Bloch, B. J. Lockhart, and others, for the Harvard Mark I
[10, Chs. 4, 6]. "
Why are you linking to Twitter and not to the actual paper? http://fermatslibrary.com/s/von-neumanns-first-computer-prog...
For once the Twitter comments are actually good. A gif of the merge sort and another giving its big-O rating.
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The video is from http://panthema.net/2013/sound-of-sorting/ and it's been submitted before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7454723
Do you have a link to the Twitter comments that you can share?
We changed it from https://twitter.com/fermatslibrary/status/991301499799195648.... The site guidelines ask for original sources (please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), and the Twitter thread doesn't contain that much information.
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thanks a lot, now I have to dig around to find the twitter link. the paper is boring.
https://sci-hub.tw/10.1145/356580.356581