The following is an abridged and edited excerpt from my book Clean Craftsmanship.
The profession of software began, inauspiciously, in the summer of 1935 when Alan Turing began work on his paper. His goal was to resolve a mathematical dilemma that had perplexed mathematicians for a decade or more: the Entscheidungsproblem. The decision problem.
In that goal, he was successful; but he had no idea, at the time, that his paper would spawn a globe-spanning industry upon which we would all depend and that now forms the lifeblood of our entire civilization.
In 1945, Turing wrote code for the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE). He wrote ...
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