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Stories

https://www.ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/stories.html

Hexter Pioneer Business Programming Gerry Jean Links to other collections - of tall tales ;-)) CalTech?s IBM 1800 and "Lunatic" mass spectrometer in 1968 by Bob Haas - sent Novemb

Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html

who understood computer programming, and the Quiche Eaters were the ones who didn't. A real computer programmer said things like "DO 10 I=1,10" and "ABEND" (they actually talked i

The Retrocomputing Museum

http://www.catb.org/retro/

in the history of programming languages. More Algol68 resources can be found at the Software Preservation Group . ADVSYS ADVenture SYStem, another adventure-writing system by Davi
A museum of archaic computer languages

2blowhards.com: Climate Models Written in ... Fortran?!?

http://www.2blowhards.com/archives/2009/07/climate_models.html

written in the Fortran programming language . My reaction was: Good Lord! No wonder the results are questionable. Actually, the results of almost any computer model used to foreca
2blowhards.com - a weblog

1401Restoration-CHM

https://ibm-1401.info/

Comments Nov 2012 Programming Class Proposal(s) Programming the IBM 1401 a 6.0 megabyte .pdf file BillWorthington-1401Tour--VisibleStorageSegment.pdf updated Dec 28, 2007 Power On

M-J. Dominus Perl Paraphernalia

https://perl.plover.com/

Topics in Perl CGI Programming with Perl Hands-On Introduction to Perl "How do I delete a line from a file?" Intermediate Topics in Perl Making Programs Faster Object-Oriented Pro

Douglas W. Jones's punched card index

http://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~jones/cards/history.html

for a fixed-format programming environment where fields of each line indicate addresses and operations. This particular card seems to include both symbolic locatons and numerical
A brief technical history of punched cards

Reasons why I still love C in 2022

https://sgfault.com/post/2022/04/2022-04-15-reasons-why-i-love-c-in-2022/

April 15, 2022 The C programming language is 50 years old this year. I wanted to break my blogging hiatus to write this post to celebrate the occasion and explain why I think some


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