On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 03:29:26PM -0400, Rob Hardowa wrote:
[...]
> Also historically significant are the Turing computer in 1938, the EDSAC
> in 1949 (another Turing with 1st library of subroutines), 1952 first
> commercial compiler, 1954 has MATH_MATIC the 1st compiled language for the
> UNIVAC I, Fortran developed at IBM, the first Assembler at IBM, 1957 DECs
> Information Processing Language, 1959 COBOL, 1962 Time Sharing, 1965 Basic.
[...]
Well, if you're going that far back, you probably shouldn't forget
Konrad Zuse's Z1 (1936, "the first binary digital computer in the world"),
Z2 (1939) and Z3 (1941, often regarded as "the world's first,
electronic, fully programmable, computer"), either... ;-)
Zuse also developped one of the first high-level languages: "Plankalkül".
See e.g. http://irb.cs.tu-berlin.de/~zuse/Konrad_Zuse/index.html
for more. Talk about "big iron"... :-)
Thomas
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