Article ID: CBB256735074

The Computer Programs of Charles Babbage (January-March 2021)

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The mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage drafted 26 code fragments between 1836 and 1840 for his unfinished “Analytical Engine.” The programs were embedded implicitly in tables representing execution traces. In this article, we explore the programming architecture of Babbage's mechanical computer, that is, its structure from the point of view of a programmer, based on those 26 coding examples preserved in the Babbage Papers Archive.

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Authors & Contributors
Swade, Doron D.
Green, Christopher D.
Bromley, Allan G.
David McQuillan
Guy C. Fedorkow
Brian Coghlan
Journals
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Technology and Culture
History of Psychology
Historia Mathematica
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Viking
Duke University Press
Concepts
Computers and computing
Technology
Biographies
History of Computing
Software
Computer science
People
Babbage, Charles
Zuse, Konrad
Ludgate, Percy E.
Lovelace, Ada, Countess of
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
Places
Great Britain
Turin (Italy)
Russia
Italy
Institutions
Smithsonian Institution
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