Routines of Substitution: John von Neumann’s Work on Software Development, 1945–1948 by Mark PriestleyEnglish | PDF,EPUB | 2018 | 131 Pages | ISBN : 331991670X | 6.85 MB
This work is a historical and philosophical study of the programming work carried out by John von Neumann in the period 1945-8. At the heart of the book is an examination of a manuscript featuring the earliest known surviving example of von Neumann’s coding, a routine written in 1945 to ‘mesh’ two sequences of data and intended to be part of a larger program implementing the algorithm now known as mergesort.