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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sat,  5 Sep 2009 20:17:53 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] nice quote
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> I wasn't, in this case at least, implying something not backed by firm
> evidence. Conditional branching embodied in actual computers goes back to
> Plankalkuel on Z3. The idea is as early as Babbage. It comes as natural
> even to first-timers, following much more difficult conception of a notion
> of control flow, that there must be a manner of conditionally passing it
> around.

so you're saying that the table in this section is wrong?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer#History_of_computing

if it is and you can back it up, i sugeest you fix wikipedia.

- erik