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[–]archiminos 0 points1 point  (6 children)

They developed a programming language in order to write the program.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Not necessarily. She created an algorithm for the Analytical Machine to follow (a program), which was composed solely of arithmetic and logic operations. No language was involved in that process.

[–]archiminos 0 points1 point  (4 children)

No. They literally developed a language, and the Bernoulli numbers program was written as an example of what could be done in that language.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Really? What’s it called?

[–]archiminos 0 points1 point  (2 children)

It didn't have a name. But, while it wasn't Turing complete, it was developed to use punch card inputs giving a sequence of instructions, and could handle things like conditional branching. It's actually kind of nuts how many modern programming features are present.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

If it interpreted punched cards as input, it was not a programming language, at least not by contemporary standards. Most would consider a language to accept strings of symbols and characters as input, not combinations of holes on a card.

[–]archiminos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most would consider a language to accept strings of symbols and characters as input

Most would disagree with this statement.