A short primer on assemblers, compilers, and interpreters

By Erik O'Shaughnessy
A gentle introduction to the historical evolution of programming practices.
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In the early days of computing, hardware was expensive and programmers were cheap. In fact, programmers were so cheap they weren't even called "programmers" and were in fact usually mathematicians or electrical engineers. Early computers were used to solve complex mathematical problems quickly, so mathematicians were a natural fit for the job of "programming."

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I think the media should make an effort to use virtual system and virtual processor instead of virtual machine for both.
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