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by hedora 88 days ago
Arguably, it was the second.

The Harvard Mark 1 ran its first program in 1944, but didn’t have branches as we understand them until 1946:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Mark_I

Apparently, you could achieve loops by taping the input program into a physical loop, even in 1944.

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