Take a language like Java. How was it originally created? I can’t wrap my head around how someone invented a computer language to run without having some “prior” language that it allows the first lines to function. Is it just Java all the way down, like someone wrote a single line of Java and then every other line was built on that?
What about the first computer language? What was the basis that that functioned on?
Thanks for any help, I hope that was phrased in a mildly intelligible way.
Edit; I’m trying to think of it like human language: at some point there was a first “word” spoken by someone and understood by another and from there the structure started to be born. What were the first “words” on a computer that led to where we are now?
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Don’t think of it as a language, think of it as the evolution of a tool and its uses. Digging, for example. Originally, to dig one would use sharp objects. Eventually, the spade was invented, along with various sizes to accommodate different tasks. Larger tools for digging were invented until machinery allowed for even larger digging equipment and thus more tasks could be accomplished with this greater digging power. In the same way, programming started as soldering circuit boards, eventually moved to punch-cards and and tape reels. Then, with the advent of monitors and keyboards, people could do things like data entry and complex calculations and it just kept going from there.
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