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To: Amy J who wrote (178781)	7/22/2004 4:00:04 AM
From: brushwud	Read Replies (1) of 186894

what type of software programming languages were around back in 1968 - mainframe stuff, right? What year was the field of software development even invented? I thought of Grace Hopper & FORTRAN ("it was her great idea that programs could be written in a language that was close to English rather than in machine code or in languages close to machine code, such as the assemblers of the time."), but Lady Ada Lovelace, "the only legitimate child of the poet Lord Byron" and an associate of Charles Babbage, is generally credited as being the first programmer: nationmaster.com This reminds me that the British wanted to be called programmers because it sounded more professional, but the Americans have generally thought of themselves simply as coders.

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