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Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast

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What the Fuck Did He Do?

The first actual computer program that we know of in print was created by Ada Lovelace. Charles Petzold wrote a book called Code, which is actually different from the other one I talked about earlier. To make something general purpose, we need the concept of software. So when did we invent software? What's some of that early code look like? And you know, what were the major evolutionary milestones, how we control the program computers?

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