Programming Languages
How humans learned to talk to machines — starting with Ada Lovelace writing instructions for a machine that didn't exist yet.
7 posts· 1843 – 1959
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COBOL, or how a committee invented the world's most durable programming language
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Lisp, or the language that ran before anyone knew it could
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Fortran, or the compiler nobody believed in
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The first assembler
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Short Code, or the first time a machine did the translating
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Plankalkül, or how to invent a programming language during an air raid
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Ada Lovelace's Note G, or the first program for a machine that didn't exist