To make Lemmon Cakes (1670)

Re:To make Lemmon Cakes (1670) by pekk on Friday March 27, 2015 @03:51PM (#9278619)

Published recipes are arguably an old form of programs :)

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Re:To make Lemmon Cakes (1670) by alanh on Friday March 27, 2015 @09:12PM (#9280056)

indeed, the first definition of "algorithm" i ever heard was that it was essentially a recipe.

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Re:To make Lemmon Cakes (1670) by thret on Friday March 27, 2015 @10:29PM (#9280239)

I first heard that in the book 'Hackers' by David Bischoff.

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