Abstract
This paper describes some of the early developments which can now be viewed as constituting steps towards the development of program control, and of the modern concept of a stored program. In particular, it discusses early automatic devices, Babbage's contributions set against a background of the technology of his day, the contributions of some of his direct successors, and the genesis of the stored-program idea.
The Origins of Computer Programming
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing Vol. 16, Issue 4, pp 6-14
IEEE Computer Society, 1994 ISSN 1058-6180
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