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Agreed, there's definitely a continuum as you go lower down the stack; in the same way that the first programmers were often electrical engineers (with due defe
by dmreedy 8y ago
Agreed, there's definitely a continuum as you go lower down the stack; in the same way that the first programmers were often electrical engineers (with due deference to Ada Lovelace).
- kens 8y agoAre you thinking of any early electrical engineer programmers in particular? The impression I got was that early programmers for scientific applications were largely mathematicians and scientists (e.g. Hopper, Turing, ENIAC programmers, von Neumann), while business programming was more office / business people.
- dmreedy 8y agoFair; I'm thinking of people like (from disparate periods) Ivan Sutherland, Doug Englebart, Claude Shannon, and so on; folks who came out of EE educations but became computer engineers or computer scientists in practice (and sort of by post-hoc definition)