Programming Jacquard's loom (1801)

I quote from the article "The idea of using punch cards to instruct and control a system became the basis of computer programming"<p>Good grief!

&#62; Statistician Herman Hollerith used punch cards to tabulate data from the 1890 U.S. census. The cards evolved into the mid-20th century’s ubiquitous IBM cards that were used in early computing to store data as well as program the way the data would be processed.<p>Cunningly stepping over that whole WWII business.