drewcomputer t1_iy13pi1 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL The worlds first computer virus was developed by Jon Von Neumann in 1949. It served as proof that computer programs are capable of replicating themselves by s24569
You can absolutey write a program or algorithm without running it on a computer. Turing published Turing machines long before they ran on silicon, and Ada Lovelace wrote software for a computer that wasn’t built in her lifetime. The first virus implemented in Assembly directly cited and built out Von Neumann’s work.
hux t1_iy1gzp1 wrote
I would argue that unless you can sit at a terminal and wonder why your program does not work, then make a trivial and meaningless change which causes it to work but should not, then you haven’t really written software.
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