Women in Computing

http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/acm-women-in-computing

so little progress in programming environments, systems, and computer languages in the last three decades that programmers in India and other Third World countries are perfectly c

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

Nightwind's Home Page

https://www.fur.com/nighty/

working with them, programming in them. Here also are a few things of humorous note that relate to computers (in a way). Hope you enjoy them! :) The Programmer's Prayer A new comm

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

Loper OS » "Cryostat" Genesis.

http://www.loper-os.org/?p=3791

family. The decay of programming therefore seems to have happened in (at least) two stages: first, the sacrificing of homoiconism and macros, and second, the death of the "managed

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

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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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