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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The ‘original’ language is basically designed by the manufacturer of the hardware, you could say it is part of the instruction manual for the CPU! Just like you need to know how to program a clock or a set up a fridge, the CPU manufacturer provides instructions (the language) on how to use the different functions of the CPU. Over time the language has become standardized, so that programmers don’t need to learn another language for each CPU (there still are different languages but x86 is most popular). All other programming languages use the ‘original’ language as basis.
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