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Eloquent JavaScript
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Eloquent JavaScript

by Marijn Haverbeke
January 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
224 pages
5h 43m
English
No Starch Press
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Why Language Matters

In the beginning, at the birth of computing, there were no programming languages. Programs looked something like this:

00110001 00000000 00000000
00110001 00000001 00000001
00110011 00000001 00000010
01010001 00001011 00000010
00100010 00000010 00001000
01000011 00000001 00000000
01000001 00000001 00000001
00010000 00000010 00000000
01100010 00000000 00000000

That is a program to add the numbers from 1 to 10 together and print out the result (1 + 2 + ... + 10 = 55). It could run on a very simple, hypothetical machine. To program early computers, it was necessary to set large arrays of switches in the right position, or punch holes in strips of cardboard and feed them to the computer. You can imagine how this was a tedious, error ...

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