It was capable of iteration, conditional branching and parallel processing, and it was programmable using punched cards, an idea Babbage took from Jacquard's loom.
它可以进行迭代、条件跳转， 并且可以并行处理， 可以使用穿孔卡进行编程， 这是巴贝奇从雅卡尔的织布机中得到的灵感。