A Long Way to Have Come and Still to Go.

The author considers the historical development of computer programming. He observes that in 1953 programming a computer introduced by International Business Machines was considerably more advanced than programming as depicted that year in the novel "Starman Jones" by Robert Heinlein. In 2014 he say...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 58; no. 1; pp. 7 - 8
Main Author: Cerf, Vinton G.
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jan2015
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