On: Von Neumann’s First Computer Program (1970)

[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.