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Where code comes from: architectures of automatic control from Babbage to Algol

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 59, Issue 1

Pages 39 - 44

https://doi.org/10.1145/2846088

Published: 21 December 2015 Publication History

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Considering the evolving concept of programming.

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January 2016

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DOI:10.1145/2859829

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