earliest code
dex_poet wrote:
and the first programmable computer was called a bombe. It was used to brute force the Enigma machine just after WW1. Given from the polish to French and English 2 weeks before Germany invaded Poland.
Actually the first programmable computer was the difference engine invented by Charles Babbage but anyway if your asking about modern computer languages i would say Short Code or FORTRAN i saw a show on UKTV History the other day about the first computers and it was quite interesting :happy:
jaggedlancer wrote: [quote]dex_poet wrote:
and the first programmable computer was called a bombe. It was used to brute force the Enigma machine just after WW1. Given from the polish to French and English 2 weeks before Germany invaded Poland.
Actually the first programmable computer was the difference engine invented by Charles Babbage but anyway if your asking about modern computer languages i would say Short Code or FORTRAN i saw a show on UKTV History the other day about the first computers and it was quite interesting :happy:[/quote]
Aye he's right, or atleast that's the earliest i've ever heard of. Pity he was thrown in jail for homosexuality.
Apologies if i'm thinking of something else.
jaggedlancer wrote: [quote]dex_poet wrote:
and the first programmable computer was called a bombe. It was used to brute force the Enigma machine just after WW1. Given from the polish to French and English 2 weeks before Germany invaded Poland.
Actually the first programmable computer was the difference engine invented by Charles Babbage but anyway if your asking about modern computer languages i would say Short Code or FORTRAN i saw a show on UKTV History the other day about the first computers and it was quite interesting :happy:[/quote]
Aye he's right, or atleast that's the earliest i've ever heard of. Pity he was thrown in jail for homosexuality.
Apologies if i'm thinking of something else.
dex_poet wrote: I guess it was. I thought Babbage gave up on NO. 1 and lost funding on NO. 2, but it's online.
The bombes were also interesting though. Like you could have a bunch of them wired together so that when the key to the encryption is found, a circuit is completed and a light turns on. They also did not have pre-computed values.
Number one failed i believe because the valves used kept over-heating there was hundreds upon hundreds of them in it. Again vague memories but if people want to know it's only a small google away.
JamesBlack wrote: Aye he's right, or atleast that's the earliest i've ever heard of. Pity he was thrown in jail for homosexuality.
Apologies if i'm thinking of something else.
wasn't that Alan Turing? Alan Turing was murdered (imho) by anti-gay activists….such a shame, he was one of the most intelligent mathematicians ever.
Anyway, the early computer languages (like,50s - 70s) that resembled the english language (i.e. had english language keywords) were mostly all invented by women…which i guess is because women are better at linguistics than men (usually).
x_5631 wrote: It wont be the first, I'm sure, but the earliest one I can think of is the Caesar Cipher, I'm not going to say who or when, figure it out haha ;)
I think it's the kinda thing that's going to have gone back so far it's just simply not recorded.
That's a way of encoding/stegano'ing, not a code/language.
in the ancient caves of somalia they discovered, along with a couple of drawings of elephants and other animals the following code:
public void class CookFood (int intensity, int time ) { Fire.Start(intensity) while (t=0, t<=time, t++) SitAndWatch } return; }
this shows the primitivity of the early homo sapiens since the code is not properly indented. it is assumed that 50% of the early humans died during the indentation wars.
http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/00259.html
A nice little song there. :P
jaggedlancer wrote: Actually the first programmable computer was the difference engine invented by Charles Babbage but anyway if your asking about modern computer languages i would say Short Code or FORTRAN i saw a show on UKTV History the other day about the first computers and it was quite interesting :happy:
if i remember right, babbage never actually built his machine because the technology of that time wasnt good enough to make the gears to precision he needed. his schematics were right though. later on someone built his machine and it works. actually it's on display like a mile from where i am right now.
From the Babbage Institute's Website: In 1985, the Science Museum in London began construction of the Difference Engine No. 2 using Babbage's original designs. The calculating device was completed and working by 1991, just in time for the bicentennial of Babbage's birth. The device consists of 4000 parts and weighs over three metric tons