🚀 The Evolution of Programming: From Ada Lovelace to AI 🤖
🚀 The Evolution of Programming: From Ada Lovelace to AI 🤖 The story of computing spans from Ada Lovelace’s 1843 notes on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine to today’s AI-driven technologies. Ada is often called the first programmer , having written the world’s first published algorithm. Each innovation along the way — from machine code to high-level languages — made programming more powerful and abstract. To understand this evolution, consider the key eras below: 19th century: Charles Babbage’s theoretical Analytical Engine and Ada Lovelace’s algorithms (the first published programs). 1940s-1950s: Early electronic computers (e.g. ENIAC, 1945) programmed in binary/assembly. The stored-program concept (EDVAC, Manchester Baby) laid the foundation for later software. 1950s-1960s: High-level languages emerge. IBM’s Fortran (1957) introduced algebraic programming. In the late 1950s, Lisp (1958) enabled symbolic AI programming and COBOL (1959) standardized business data coding....