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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
James Iry; Thursday, May 7, 2009

1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion, concurrency, or proper capitalization.

1842 - Ada Lovelace writes the first program. She is hampered in her efforts by the minor inconvenience that she doesn't have any actual computers to run her code. Enterprise architects will later relearn her techniques in order to program in UML.

1936 - Alan Turing invents every programming language that will ever be but is shanghaied by British Intelligence to be 007 before he can patent them.

1936 - Alonzo Church also invents every language that will ever be but does it better. His lambda calculus is ignored because it is insufficiently C-like. This criticism occurs in spite of the fact that C has not yet been invented.

1940s - Various "computers" are "programmed" using direct wiring and switches. Engineers do this in order to avoid the tabs vs spaces debate.

1957 - John Backus and IBM create FORTRAN. There's nothing funny about IBM or FORTRAN. It is a syntax error to write FORTRAN while not wearing a blue tie.
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Tim Zöller

Weil ich heute viele solcher Dialoge hier gelesen habe: Andere Leute die nicht euren Überzeugungen folgen sind nicht eure Feinde, es macht keinen Sinn sich gegenseitig zu zerfleischen. Jemand isst Fleisch? Jemand hat ein Auto? Jemand nutzt LLMs? Jemand fliegt? Ja scheiss drauf, die Leute zu antagonisieren hilft keinem, wahrscheinlich hast du mit der Person mehr gemeinsam, als du in diesem kleinen Online Ausschnitt siehst. Grenzt Menschenfeinde aus, der Rest kann ausgehalten werden.

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digastricus

@lwn So, have we now officially reached the 'extinguish' state of 'embrace - extend - extinguish' with the removal of SysV init script support?

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heise online

Google greift bei Android durch und beendet die Ära anonymer Apps! 📱

Zum Artikel: heise.de/-10617479?wt_mc=sm.re

#Android #Google #AppSicherheit #Datenschutz #Sideloading

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digastricus

Offenbar gibt es in Deutschland nichtmal eine Registrierungspflicht für Sender IDs (das sind die Namen, die manchmal statt einer Rufnummer als Absender einer SMS angezeigt werden).

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digastricus

Warum kann ich nichtmal eine Prepaid-SIM bekommen ohne meine Identität nachzuweisen, aber Scammer können eine bekommen, einen Vertrag mit einem Versender abschließen, eine Domain registrieren und einen Webhoster beauftragen, alles ohne Konsequenzen zu befürchten oder eine ladefähige Adresse zu hinterlassen?

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Dgar

I have a joke about trickle down economics, but 99 percent of you won’t get it.

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@robryk @freemo As I understand the matter, I would agree. The Phoenician seem to have developed this abstraction of letters representing phonemes instead of things. A lot of writing systems in the world stem from the phoenician alphabet, including greek, hebrew, latin etc.

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@robryk @freemo It is interesting to note that the common ground in China is their writing system. There are different dialects and different languages across China, but as long as you can read Chinese you can communicate (sadly, I cannot)

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@robryk @freemo The grammar is indeed very different, but they imported lots of characters for their meaning but used their own pronunciation. On the other hand, there are different readings and kanji sometimes are used for their original chinese pronunciation. It is said that the Japanese writing system is one of the most complicated ones in existence.

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@robryk @freemo Indeed, the Japanese imported their writing system from the Chinese although the languages are not related. Also the phonetic symbols (Hiragana and Katakana) are said to be simplified Kanji. The Koreans used the Chinese symbols as well but also simplified them.

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digastricus

Ich wäre definitiv in den 87% gewesen!

Troy Hunt: Thanks FedEx, This is Why we Keep Getting Phished
troyhunt.com/thanks-fedex-this

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digastricus

informiert mich per Mail darüber, dass eine Sendung zurückgeschickt wird, die ich erwarte. Bezüglich der Gründe wird überaus hilfreich auf eine FAQ verwiesen, welche allgemeine/mögliche Gründe auflistet. Eine telefonische Nachfrage (bei der ich sicherlich 10x die ellenlange Sendungsnummer angeben musste) ergibt, die Sendung sei mangels Postnummer nicht zustellbar. Offenbar bin ich aber ja als Empfänger bekannt, die Sendung erscheint auch in der DHL App. Aber nein, ändern könne man da nichts, sie wird jetzt nach Schweden zurückgeschickt.

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vitaut 🤍❤️🤍 🇺🇦

I am so old that I remember Turbo Pascal!

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🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

This shouldnt be funny, yet here we are...

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Jack Rusher

This 1957 photo from the construction site of the Atomium looks like a still from the greatest sci-fi film never made…

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Sean Murthy

Human healthcare is the ultimate "reverse engineering" project. And the system comes with no documentation whatsoever.

#health #healthcare #medicine

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sj_zero
Everyone should have a nas and everyone should have drm free copies of their stuff because this can happen at any time.
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mhoye

God, that's a great way of describing this new Dropbox mandatory-opt-in AI decision:

"Your unpublished drafts become somebody else's autocomplete."

scholar.social/@ehud/109692270

I mean why bother waiting until something's been published to scrape it as training data if you're just gonna steal it either way?

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🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

I feel like linkedin islike that ex who is obsessed with you so they just keep sending you messages every day and you dont even know she still exists cause you had all her shit redirected to the spam folder since you broke up.

Meanwhile Twitter/X is like that ex who gets hooked on meth and you just feel sad for them but keep your distance more cause your scared for your life.

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