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...
Published on May 08, 2010 19:43