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Quote: EDSAC's floating point interpreter had recursion, an index register. and DO-loops; first recorded use of recursion

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interpreter
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history of computers
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recursion

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The floating-decimal [interpreter, 1950-51] had a number of interesting … modern programming language. Perhaps most interesting was that … appears in Wheeler's Ph.D. thesis [1951].   Google-1   Google-2

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