![]() You might find some parts a bit old but it should not distract you. Recently, I found some references to Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold. ![]() A book that is not directly about our history, but touching some parts deeply was Coders At Work, a really long book including 16 interviews with highly appreciated computer scientists and programmers. Like there was the now seemingly (and sadly) inactive (as of July 2020) channel of Byte Sized. There are some interesting sources, books, initiatives. John Kennedy went more broadly when he wrote “without history, we have no future.” But what is our history as developers? What is the history of computer science? Recently I wrote about Sapiens and I quoted Churchill - you know the guy who pretty much led the fight against Nazis - saying that “a nation that forgets its history has no future”. ![]() If you have been reading my book reviews, you know that I like history. ![]()
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