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Maurice Wilkes, David Wheeler, and the Birth of Reusable Subroutine Libraries

The EDSAC team made reusable subroutines a practical programming method, combining a paper-tape library, loading conventions and David Wheeler's closed-subroutine technique.

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EDSAC and the Birth of Practical Stored-Program Computing

EDSAC ran its first program at Cambridge in May 1949 and quickly became a working scientific service, demonstrating that stored-program computers could move from experimental prototypes into everyday research infrastructure.

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