Quote: some argue that attempts to make the machine assist with programming lead to wasteful dissipation of effort; but at EDSAC, everyone used the initial orders

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There has been much controversy about the value … Some went so far as to assert that … which they take inside the machine, and that … wasteful dissipation of effort. Our experience with the … [Workers could always write programs in direct binary form.] No one, however, has ever done this, and in fact … by everybody.   Google-1   Google-2

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