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Ada Lovelace: What did the first computer program do? (www.blobstreaming.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Aboel3z@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

tl;dr: Answer: not much, it was the first computer what were you expecting

[–] Deebster 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bad link 👎

This article seems to be an incomplete pasting of an old article: What Did Ada Lovelace’s Program Actually Do? I was suspicious when it said "A contemporary interpretation of Ada's punch card stack using JavaScript might resemble the following" but didn't have any code.

The real tl;dr is it calculated terms of the Bernoulli series.