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Re:What Did Ada Lovelace's Program Actually Do? (2018) by TomatoCo on Monday December 16, 2024 @05:10PM (#42436018)
> She realized how important it was to track the state of variables as they changed, introducing a notation to illustrate those changes.

The thing that really stuck out to me was how similar it was to static single assignment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_single-assignment_form#...

I think this is a state-of-the-art technique today and she had it, what, 180 years ago?

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Re:What Did Ada Lovelace's Program Actually Do? (2018) by coldtea on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @02:47AM (#42439259)
Well, if you do it manually, it was never not an option!
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