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Sporkman
May 12th, 2010, 01:47 PM
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

-JAMES IRY

1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion, concurrency, or proper capitalization...

http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html