I Think the Last Line I Have Quoted Is the Funniest Thing I Have Ever Heard...

James Iry:







One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages: 1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion, concurrency, or proper capitalization.







But it was multi-threaded...







1842 - Ada Lovelace writes the first program. She is hampered in her efforts by the minor inconvenience that she doesn't...

 •  0 comments  •  flag
Share on Twitter
Published on May 08, 2010 19:43
No comments have been added yet.


J. Bradford DeLong's Blog

J. Bradford DeLong
J. Bradford DeLong isn't a Goodreads Author (yet), but they do have a blog, so here are some recent posts imported from their feed.
Follow J. Bradford DeLong's blog with rss.