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how humans negotiate with rocks that learned to think.
means a formal system of syntax and rules for telling a computer exactly what to do, with zero tolerance for vagueness.
from grew out of 1940s machine code and punch cards; FORTRAN in 1957 let humans write math instead of wiring, and the arms race for expressiveness never stopped.
first bugliterally a moth stuck in a relay, 1947
count of themover 700 languages actively in use
oldest survivorfortran still runs in scientific computing today
turing completeminecraft redstone can technically run doom