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Ada Lovelace, writing notes on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, saw that a machine which handled symbols could do more than arithmetic. A note could stand for a note of music, or a letter, if the machine followed rules. She was describing software before there was a computer to run it. The insight was about symbols, not about gears.
Lovelace's leap was that a machine of symbols could compose more than sums.
Ada Lovelace, Encyclopaedia Britannica · Open the source
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