In the beginning, there were computers. Programmed with wires, then with binary data (the “stored-program” computer), then with assembly language, and from there on, a relentless stream of new programming languages. Today’s web browsers all “run” JavaScript.
Here’s a summary of that evolution again, in terms of technology:
wires: just hardware circuits and manually inserted patch cords, yikes! binary data, i.e. “machine code”: a very tedious and low-level way of programming assembly: symbolic notation, macros, you have to keep track of all registers in your head Fortran, Cobol, Algol, Pascal, C: yeay, it gets compiled for us!
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