Tomas Petricek traces how the very idea of a programming language was invented
round · x · 2026-11-06
Tomas Petricek (Charles University, Prague) released part 3 of his Cultures of Programming series, tracing how "programming language" became an independent entity — from plugging cables and punching idiosyncratic codes on tape to today's abstraction. Series home: tomasp.net/cultures.
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