Von Neumann’s First Computer Program (1970)

[gballan]

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

[dredmorbius]

Direct PDF access w/o "reader" crud:

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

[opless → dredmorbius]

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

[drzaiusapelord → opless]

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.

[SilasX → opless]

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

[dredmorbius → SilasX]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16951831

[dredmorbius → opless]

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

[TravelTechGuy]

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

[MichaelMoser123 → TravelTechGuy]

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_ → MichaelMoser123]

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]. "

[jhoechtl → _emacsomancer_]

Carefully neglecting Zuse's Plankalkül?

[gjm11 → jhoechtl]

Maybe not; Zuse is mentioned a couple of paragraphs later, so it doesn't seem that Knuth is trying to pretend he didn't exist.

[cup-of-tea]

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

[ape4 → cup-of-tea]

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

[sp332 → ape4]

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

[tuckermi → ape4]

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

[slbenfica → tuckermi]

https://twitter.com/fermatslibrary/status/991301499799195648

[dang → cup-of-tea]

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.

[optimuspaul → cup-of-tea]

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