might have to ask NS for oneFTFY <| sep |> I don ' t think this is even close to correct . BBE is leagues better than Kalitas . <| sep |> No need for a DS 3 tool ? <| sep |> Pretty sure that the first algorithm was written in the 19 th century by Countess Ada Lovelace for Charles Babbage ' s prototype of a digital calculating device , the first mathematical definition of what we call software today was outlined in the ChurchTuring thesis in the 1930 s , and the first modern software was created for the von Neumann architecture in the 1950 s , a decade before the code for Apollo was written . Not to minimize what Hamilton did , she deserves every honor she ' s given , but to even imply that she created software indicates that the person who wrote the headline is a complete ignoramus on the subject .