Adjunct of Computing

Episode 184 - We Still Don't Know What A Programming Language Is Video

Adjunct of Computing

Show Notes

In which Joe continues to push Sean towards the ideals of functional programming. We discuss how the early roots of programming, the history of mathematical notation, and the first aides to computation (hint: they were rocks).

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