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| | | (...) Your kidding?? The term "code" dates back (at least) to the "opcodes" used in machine language (ie. an even lower level than assembly). The term "opcode" refers to Operation Codes or "instructions" which may in many cases have required an (...) (24 years ago, 17-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: A code by any other name —Steve Baker
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| | | | | (...) Ada Lovelace (whose Biography all programmers should read BTW) called it 'coding'. She was the very first programer who was writing programs for the (never completed) Babbage 'Analytical Engine'. She invented things like subroutines, (...) (24 years ago, 17-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: A code by any other name —Matthias Jetleb
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| | | | | | (...) Thanks for the history lesson. I had no idea it went back that far. I had imagined mid 1940's maybe. You learn something new every day. Matthias Jetleb VA3-MWJ (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: A code by any other name —Richard Clemens
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| | | | (...) And the numerical system used in computers is binary or base 2. Each instruction would have a unique binary representation providing the control of the datapath that would cause the desired action upon the data. An instruction such as (...) (24 years ago, 17-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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