[usrusr]

Who knows, perhaps if the minds behind Paperclip had been a little more data-minded:

* today, Z3 might be considered "first real"

and

* today, we might be stuck writing code in a fossilized language lovingly called Plankalkül 58 by its inventors that had so much inertia back then that it stifled all further development in the 1960ies, with the result that all of our 2021 computing would be about as fresh as the 2021 B52.

[retrac]

> we might be stuck writing code in a fossilized language lovingly called Plankalkül 58 by its inventors

Substitute ALGOL 58 and that's pretty much what happened. You can't trust those Germans with language design!

[usrusr]

Haha, got me, I was just picking any "year used to name a language version" suffix at random, without realizing what corner of computing history this one is associated with. Is there anbody from that era who didn't have their own ALGOL?