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In 1971 there was already 15 years of FORTAN books, and 10 years of ALGOL and COBOL books
by jcelerier 9y ago
In 1971 there was already 15 years of FORTAN books, and 10 years of ALGOL and COBOL books
- coldtea 9y agoAll 100 of them? Today we have more books than all those FORTRAN and ALGOL and COBOL books combined just for a single language, like Python or Ruby.
- IncRnd 9y agoPeople in the field during 1971 may have read more books or papers about Introduction to Programming than people do today, where people read about Language X for Dummies.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoLandin’s “next 700 programming languages” seminal paper was done in 1965 you know. If anything, there was probably more variety in the 70s computing scene (books, languages, and so on) than there is today.