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by KineticLensman
2428 days ago
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> In our industry's defense, our industry is relatively young 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 |
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