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My love for assembly language made me check up the history when the first non-machinecode programming happened. I was curious mostly about whether I would find assembly languages before all those "Shortcode" languages (which were really some kind of macros or libraries, and maybe you could even call some intermediate languages. Some ideas of "higher" languages had been around for some years but never implemented at this point, and of course this was well before true high-level programming languages such as FORTRAN was invented.
She created it way back in 1947. The first computer Baby in UK and all revisions around it had some kind of assembler around that same time. Either to boot and link code symbolically more easily or full-blown assemblers.
She created it way back in 1947. The first computer Baby in UK and all revisions around it had some kind of assembler around that same time. Either to boot and link code symbolically more easily or full-blown assemblers.
Kateryna Yushchenko: The Programmer Who Changed the World | Stem is Fem
The author of the essay: Marta Shvets Have you heard of Kateryna Yushchenko, the woman who created the world’s first programming language? I was shocked to learn that the foundation for most of the programs we’re using now was laid by a girl from Chyhyryn. Kateryna had been interested in...
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