Was Wilkes's work on programming widely understood at the time?
While the concept of the stored program was revolutionary, its full implications for programming were not immediately grasped by everyone. My work, including 'The Preparation of Programs for Electronic Digital Computers,' aimed to demystify the process of writing instructions for these new machines. I recognized that the power of the stored-program computer lay not just in its hardware, but in the ease with which it could be instructed, and I wanted to make that accessible.
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