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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered  "too specialized" for scientific use
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"robin" <robin51@dodo.com.au> writes:

> As for your supercilious question, do I <<know of *any* algorithm that
> was first developed in machine code?>> --

Wasn't Ada Augusta's first program an algorithm to compute Fibonacci
numbers? That would certainly have been in machine code.

And Alan Turing thought in machine code ...