How do you get that? There was decades of prior experience both in computer science theory as well as practice, especially from the code breakers in WW2.
An example from 1945 and also from von Neumann is Mergesort, the first O(n logn) sorting algorithm, and still in use to this day. Von Neumann was known for inventing things from absolute scratch.
How do you get that? There was decades of prior experience both in computer science theory as well as practice, especially from the code breakers in WW2.