On 2011 Jan 27, at 7:03 PM, Evan Koblentz wrote:
> I guess my phrasing was a little ambiguous, I
was trying to ask
> (poorly) when the word "program" was first applied to computing
> machinery
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/freesrchabstract.jsp?
navigation=no&arnumber=476561
That's nice, unfortunately the meat of it is behind the ieee access
walls. As the abstract says: "in the context of the ENIAC". That does
not preclude its use prior. There were programmable calculating
machines before the ENIAC.