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From punched cards to autonomous collaborators: the ideas, people, languages and systems that taught machines to follow—and increasingly interpret—human intent.

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ALGOL 60 and the Syntax That Shaped Modern Programming Languages

ALGOL 60 combined an international language-design process with block structure, lexical scope, recursive procedures and a formal syntax notation that influenced generations of later programming languages.

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