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Tag: early-programming

Konrad Zuse and Plankalkül: A Programming Language Designed Before Electronic Stored-Program Computers

Konrad Zuse designed Plankalkül during and immediately after the Second World War as a notation for expressing general computational plans, decades before the language was fully published or implemented.

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Kathleen Booth and Early Assembly Language: Giving Machine Instructions Symbolic Names

Kathleen Booth's work on the ARC and APE(X)C machines helped establish an early symbolic notation for programming, replacing parts of raw binary coding with forms that people could read and write more reliably.

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