Re: NJ wants to license programmers

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From: Lambert Meertens
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1991 09:10

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) > Can you name some of these several programming languages that were designed
) > before that?

) Probably the best known is the Jacquard loom. Most others (including
) those designed by Babbage and Byron) have been forgotten; I'd have to go
) look them up.

Yeah, you should also have mentioned arabic numerals and player pianos.

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--Lambert Meertens, CWI, Amsterdam; lambert@cwi.nl

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