Von Neumann’s First Computer Program (1970)

http://fermatslibrary.com/s/von-neumanns-first-computer-program

by gballan • 8 years ago

127 18 8 years ago

cup-of-tea• 8 years ago

Why are you linking to Twitter and not to the actual paper? http://fermatslibrary.com/s/von-neumanns-first-computer-prog...

ape4• 8 years ago

For once the Twitter comments are actually good. A gif of the merge sort and another giving its big-O rating.

tuckermi• 8 years ago

Do you have a link to the Twitter comments that you can share?

sp332• 8 years ago

The video is from http://panthema.net/2013/sound-of-sorting/ and it's been submitted before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7454723

optimuspaul• 8 years ago

thanks a lot, now I have to dig around to find the twitter link. the paper is boring.

dang• 8 years ago

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.

TravelTechGuy• 8 years ago

Came here looking for the first “hello world!” Program, ended up learning something.

MichaelMoser123• 8 years ago

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.

_emacsomancer_• 8 years ago

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]. "

dredmorbius3• 8 years ago

Direct PDF access w/o "reader" crud:

https://sci-hub.tw/10.1145/356580.356581

opless• 8 years ago

FYI This triggers my corporate firewall's "protection". YMMV

SilasX• 8 years ago

Yeah, my browser (firefox, OS X) is showing a revoked certificate.

dredmorbius3• 8 years ago

Might care to access it from elsewhere. Tor onion address also.

drzaiusapelord• 8 years ago

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.

Von Neumann’s First Computer Program (1970)

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