Quote: even though EDSAC code looks like assembly code, the punched code was unintelligible

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At first glance the [EDSAC code] fragment … looks strikingly like an assembly language from a … programme rather than the form in which it … there were no layout characters, so the fragment … would have been punched as TLA8LE105SS8LS8LT8L.   Google-1   Google-2

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