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Hello, World: Programming Languages for the Polyglot Developer

Command Line Heroes

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The Importance of Grace Hopper's Compilers

Grace Hopper's work on English-style data processing language eventually evolved into co-ball. In the 1980s, there weren't any free and open compilers to go with Unix. The GCC was released in 1987; it standardized things and let everybody compile what anybody else had written.

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