8 stories tagged programming-history, newest first.
116 points by theanonymousone | 201 comments
Blog essay comparing AI coding agents to past promises like FORTRAN ending programming, reviewing 2026 survey and METR data, and imagining a developer's day in 2031.
56 points by vismit2000 | 13 comments
ACM Digital Library page for the 1982 Communications of the ACM article "The future of programming" by Anthony I. Wasserman and Steven Gutz.
298 points by rbanffy | 136 comments
Fortran-lang blog post announcing a December 2026 event in Manchester celebrating 70 years since the first Fortran manual was published.
51 points by sinnsro | 3 comments
A blog post by Adolfo Álvarez tracing the history of the pipe operator in R, from a 2012 Stack Overflow question to magrittr and the native pipe.
106 points by dimonomid | 33 comments
A personal blog post on Pixel Ambacht listing ten lines of code that hold meaning for the author, whether written, copied, or memorable.
705 points by jamesrandall | 556 comments
Personal essay by a 50-year-old developer who began coding BASIC in 1983, reflecting on how the craft of programming has changed, including with AI.
360 points by Eric_WVGG | 204 comments
A GitHub Gist reproducing Douglas Hofstadter's 1983 Scientific American introduction to Lisp, "Atoms and Lists," from Metamagical Themas.
402 points by MoBarouma | 120 comments
A Substack post interviewing the author's mother about her career as a mainframe COBOL programmer.