David Wheeler Dead
Wrote EDSAC's initial orders and invented the subroutine call — the Wheeler jump — in 1949.
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Invented the subroutine — the Wheeler Jump on EDSAC (1949) — and co-wrote the first programming textbook.\n\nHis aphorism: 'Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection.' Cambridge's Wheeler Lecture is named for him.