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One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

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1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not imp...

One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages skip to main | skip to sidebar One Div Zero An exploration of software development. Thursday, May 7, 2009 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. 1842 - Ada Lovelace writes the first program. She is hampered in her efforts by the minor inconvenience that she

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