What Did Ada Lovelace’s Program Actually Do?

Re:What Did Ada Lovelace’s Program Actually Do? by danielvf on Monday August 20, 2018 @08:12AM (#17799279)

A group working on building an Analytical Engine, discovered that Lovelace’s Bernoulli program almost certainly would not be able to run on the Analytical Engine in Babbage’s notebooks. The “instruction set” was missing some required features.

http://blog.plan28.org/2016/10/how-we-got-to-where-we-are.ht...

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Re:What Did Ada Lovelace’s Program Actually Do? by acqq on Monday August 20, 2018 @03:47PM (#17803258)

From what I understand, she clearly understood the limitations of what Babbage achieved and wrote her program to demonstrate the value of extending the hardware in order to run more universal "programs," like the one she writes!

http://rclab.de/rclab/_media/analyticalengine/aal_noteg_glas...

Also note that apparently Babbage later did consider exactly the implementation of the said missing hardware functionality:

http://blog.plan28.org/2016/10/how-we-got-to-where-we-are.ht...

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Re:What Did Ada Lovelace’s Program Actually Do? by SiempreViernes on Monday August 20, 2018 @02:35PM (#17802559)

Better yet, that version didn’t have conditionals the user could employ at all, so it isn’t even a proper computer but rather a calculator.

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