> 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
