16 Feb
2009
16 Feb
'09
11:50 a.m.
On Feb 16, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Marie Gevers wrote:
Could anybody tell me when and in which circumstances the words 'program' and 'programming' did appear?
Marie Gevers
There is a nice discussion of this question in David Grier, "The ENIAC, the verb 'to program' and the Emergence of Digital Computers," Annals of the History of Computing 18:1 (1996), 51-55. -Nathan -- Nathan Ensmenger Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Chair History & Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania www.sas.upenn.edu/~nathanen