Quote: early programming was a private arcane matter involving a programmer, a problem, a computer, a tiny store, and perhaps a few subroutines and a primitive assembly program; starting over each time, bizarre difficulties, invention, fun

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Programming in the early 1950's was really fun. … [The Programmer] had to fit his program and data … all the while using a limited and often … a program run at a speed that would … his own ingenuity, for the only information he … the notion of a subroutine and its calling … [Wilkes, Wheeler, Gill 1951] … [p. 656] programming in the early fifties was a … a small library of subroutines and a primitive … new uses. General programming principles were largely non-existent. … depended primarily on the programmer's private techniques and …   Google-1   Google-2

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