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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Waaay back it came from music—player pianos. A long roll of paper with tiny rectangles punched in it that “told” the piano what to play. That morphed into punch cards/tape that were used to enter information into a computer. Then they were able to be stored on magnetic tape strips just like cassettes but usually giant. My first computer ran on cassette tapes.
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