Re: NJ wants to license programmers

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From: Dan Bernstein
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1991 23:47

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In article <3985@charon.cwi.nl> lambert@cwi.nl (Lambert Meertens) writes:
> In article <7647.Jul3005.40.1491@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
> )                     Several programming languages were designed before
> ) Turing wrote his first paper.
> In 1930 Turing won the Christopher Morcom Prize with a paper on a topic in
> chemistry.  His first published paper, entitled ``Equivalence of Left and
> Right Periodicity'', appeared in 1935 in the Journal of the London
> Mathematical Society.
> 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.

---Dan

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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
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