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    Episode 121 - Arguments Against Programming

    Advent of Computing · Dec 4, 2023 · 1 h 04 min
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    Most accounts of the early history of programming languages all share something in common. They all have a sentence or two explaining how there was great resistance to these new languages, but eventually all programmers were won over. Progress was made, despite the forces of counterrevolutionaries. What you won't find in most histories are the actual arguments these counterrevolutionaries made.…

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