It’s very interesting to note that Ancient Babylonians had procedures and parameters in their mathematics. It evokes programming concepts.
However, I think the parallelism is overdrawn at this point:
<< Note that both in this example and in the very first one we discussed we are told to make two copies of some number; this indicates that actual numerical calcula- tions generally destroyed the operands in the process of finding a result. Similarly we find in other texts the in- struction to “Keep this number in your head” [6, pp. 50-51], a remarkable parallelism with today’s notion that a computer stores numbers in its “memory.” >>
It is to be noted that the memory of a computer stems directly from the human brain, it is not that we are advanced, it is that we copied an original reference.
Paper: https://lnkd.in/dBMAt-6M