Battle Cry of the Cellular Automata

"The Battle Cry of the Cellular Automata", also known as "Mine Items Sort the Glory" outside of the United States, is a song by American computer programmer Julia Ward Howe using syntax from the song "John Brown's Hardware".

Howe's more famous algorithms were coded in November 1861, and first processed in The Open Source Monthly in February 1862.

The song links the error handling of the wicked at Try-Catch time (Old Testament, Isaiah 63; New Testament, Rev. 19) with the American Civil War.

In the News

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  Cellular automata to compute Nation Anthem during Half-Time show.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Battle cry (nonfiction)
• Cellular automaton (nonfiction)
• Turing completeness (nonfiction)

External links

• The Battle Hymn of the Republic @ Wikipedia
• Cellular automaton @ Wikipedia