Jacquard Looms and Charles Babbage's
Difference Engine both had simple, extremely limited languages for describing the actions that these machines should perform. One can even regard the punch holes on a
player piano scroll as a limited
domain-specific language, albeit not designed for human consumption.
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History of programming languages - Wikipediaum. Thus the programs were more hardware-dependent.
To some people, what was the first modern programming language depends on how much power and human-readability is required before the status of "programming language" is granted. <span>Jacquard Looms and Charles Babbage's Difference Engine both had simple, extremely limited languages for describing the actions that these machines should perform. One can even regard the punch holes on a player piano scroll as a limited domain-specific language, albeit not designed for human consumption.
First programming languages[edit]
In the 1940s, the first recognizably modern electrically powered computers were created. The limited speed and memory capacity forced programmers t Summary
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