When we think of modern coding, we think of Python and Rust and Swift and Ruby and so on.
My question is more abstract. How exactly did computer scientists develop the original language used to tell a computer what to do and when to do it? How did they teach the computer to recognize that langauge?
Going even further than that, how did current languages get developed? Did they just rewrite the original computer code from scratch or are all modern computer languages designed to communicate with this baseline original code which all computers were programmed with?
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All of these are good answers, but there’s something missing : How did they actually *write* the code, for example, to interpret the inputs from the first ever keyboard ?
The answer is punched cards. You would encode information into the card by “punching” tiny holes into it, and the computer would read the cards, not unlike what others are saying. It was the only form of input computers would have, because they were manufactured specifically for it.
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