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  • Issue #08: Programming History

    Issue #8: Programming History

    May 6, 2019
    By Graham Lee

    Welcome to the eigth issue of De Programmatica Ipsum, dedicated to the subject of Programming History.

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  • Aeolipile: a steam engine from 2000 BC
    Guests,  Issue #08: Programming History

    A Brief And Painful History Of Programming

    May 6, 2019
    By Fernando Rodriguez

    Kent Beck is deservedly famous for creating Test-Driven Development (TDD.) According to himself, he did not invent it. He only rediscovered it.

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  • Issue #08: Programming History,  Library

    History Repeating

    May 6, 2019
    By Adrian Kosmaczewski

    Somehow we all agree about the importance of history in our society. We teach it to our younger ones, we quote it in our speeches, we talk about it during our dinners. Maybe it is because we had to memorize the names of battles fought ages ago, and we expect to capitalize on that fact so as to appear wise (if not arrogant) to others. We might even agree with history itself, shaking our heads in dismay to some extent, as we see the events unfolding nowadays. A phenomenon which, by all measures, tends to increase with age.

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  • Issue #08: Programming History

    History Is A Fiction

    May 6, 2019
    By Graham Lee

    What is the history of programming? There is none. There are many. It is too long. Let me summarise.

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