When Technology Became Language: The Origins of the Linguistic Conception of Computer Programming, 1950–1960

• DOI: 10.1353/tech.2014.0031
• Publication Date: 2014-03-09T13:00:32Z
• Authors: David Nofre; Mark Priestley; Gerard Alberts
• Keywords: Computational linguistics

Language is one of the central metaphors around which discipline computer science has been built. The language metaphor entered modern computing as part a cybernetic discourse, but during second half 1950s acquired more abstract meaning, closely related to formal languages logic and linguistics. article argues that this transformation was appearance commercial in mid-1950s. Managers installations specialists on programming academic centers, confronted with an increasing variety machines, called for creation "common" or "universal languages" enable migration code from machine machine. Finally, shows how idea universal decisive step emergence languages, recognition proper field knowledge, eventually way we think computer.