• UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Where did he say that about compilers and high level languages? He died before Fortran was released and probably programmed on punch cards or tape.

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      1 day ago

      I’ll try to find it later, I read he said that in a book from Martin Davis. He didn’t speak about Fortran, I just used it as an analogy

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        3 hours ago

        Fair, I’m mostly just curious what high level languages were around at the time given how early this was in the history of programming. A quick search did not turn up helpful results.

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          Oh, it probably wasn’t about an existing language, but about some guy studying what would become high level languages. Like studying linkers and symbolic representation of programs