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Considering the idea of a programming language a fundamental innovation derived from FORTRAN disregards earlier concepts, like Gödel numbering from the year 193
by mneary 13y ago
Considering the idea of a programming language a fundamental innovation derived from FORTRAN disregards earlier concepts, like Gödel numbering from the year 1931, which exhibit language interpretation. I guess what I'm trying to say is that every good idea is closely related to countless others; pigeon-holing them into the Only 8 categories and naming a "first" doesn't do justice to all of the interesting ideas of computation.