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by sacrificedcapon
2430 days ago
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In our industry's defense, our industry is relatively young. In other words, the industry is too busy making history to appreciate it. I'm sure as time passes, we'll start to appreciate the history of the industry more and more. |
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If we take ENIAC [0] as the first computer (1945), then our industry is 74 years old. Let’s compare this with another tech industry – the aviation industry. The Wright brothers flew in 1903 [1]. 1903 + 74 = 1977.
I was a kid in the 1970s, fascinated by aerospace and aviation. There was a massive amount of aviation history around (I still have some of the aviation history books I bought then). So I think there has been plenty of time for the history of computing to appear. Even if we added another 15 years to shift the start of the history of computing (software engineering) at the development of COBOL [2] (approx the same as FORTRAN or LISP), there has still been a lot of time.
So I don’t think it’s industry youth / age alone.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL