- The first programming language: Plankalkül http://www.catb.org/retro/plankalkuel/ 4 comments compsci
- 1945=>1972/ACM: The "Plankalkül" of Konrad Zuse: "A Forerunner of Today's Programming Languages" by F.L. Bauer and H. Wössner... e.g. Checking a Move of the White King; "The very first attempt to devise an algorithmic language..." Heinz Rutishauser 1967; Zuse called a program a "Rechenplan." http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~mckeeman/cs118/references/plankalkuel.html 10 comments programming