Programming the ENIAC (2011)(columbia.edu)
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A Columbia University Computing History page by Frank da Cruz on the ENIAC and how its women programmers set it up by plugging cables and flipping switches.
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Konrad Zuse's Homepage(web.archive.org)
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Konrad Zuse (1994)(xn--plankalkl-x9a.de)
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Programming the ENIAC (2011)(columbia.edu)
9 points by nill0 | 0 comments
A Columbia University Computing History page by Frank da Cruz on the ENIAC and how its women programmers set it up by plugging cables and flipping switches.
Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?(quora.com)
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A Quora answer by Alan Kay to the question of whether the ENIAC computer had a BIOS; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.
Formal methods and the future of programming(blog.janestreet.com)
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Jane Street Blog post on formal methods and their role in the future of programming, illustrated with OCaml-style specification code.
Fabrice Bellard: The Ghost in the Code(zbruceli.org)
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A long-form blog essay profiling Fabrice Bellard, the reclusive programmer behind widely used software like FFmpeg and QEMU.
The earliest versions of the first C compiler known to exist(github.com)
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GitHub repository containing source code of the earliest known versions of Dennis Ritchie's first C compiler (last1120c and prestruct).
Cecilia Berdichevsky, Clementina expert (1961)(en.wikipedia.org)
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Wikipedia biography of Cecilia Berdichevsky, an Argentine computer scientist who programmed the Ferranti Mercury computer "Clementina" from 1961.