Timeline for First fictional programming language in sci-fi or fantasy?
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| Jul 25, 2020 at 4:15 | answer | added | Ethan | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 11:26 | comment | added | Ross Presser | @MarkMorganLloyd -- here are the 7 matches for Loglan in my ebook copy. | |
| Jul 8, 2020 at 19:43 | comment | added | AncientSwordRage♦ | @user14111 it feels like this requires nuance. I don't know yet as I haven't taken the time to consider each question closely. I will make a decision when I'm able to. | |
| Jul 8, 2020 at 19:07 | comment | added | user14111 | It's your question. If you're not sure, nobody is. And if nobody knows which answers count, what's to stop this turning into a list of every fictional programming language ever written? | |
| Jul 8, 2020 at 12:26 | history | protected | Rand al'Thor♦ | ||
| Jul 8, 2020 at 9:37 | history | notice added | AncientSwordRage♦ | Needs detailed answers | |
| Jul 8, 2020 at 9:37 | comment | added | AncientSwordRage♦ | @user14111 It's boiling down to, in the earlier cases that the programmes are very close to existing programming languages. I'm not sure where artistic/non-scientific licence ends, and a new programming language begins. | |
| Jul 8, 2020 at 8:55 | comment | added | user14111 | I think it would be helpful if you would state which of the suggested examples meet your requirements. For example, if The Black Cloud is a valid example of what you're looking for, then there is no need for any more entries later than 1957. | |
| Jul 8, 2020 at 8:18 | answer | added | Mark Morgan Lloyd | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 8, 2020 at 7:54 | comment | added | Mark Morgan Lloyd | @Ross Presser I've not got a copy to hand but I think the phrase was "described the changes in LOGLAN". | |
| Jul 8, 2020 at 7:51 | comment | added | Mark Morgan Lloyd | @AncientSwordRage Apropos "A for Andromeda", the Wp article explicitly says that the message included a "programme". It's interesting that we've got two mentions of (Professor Sir) Fred Hoyle in this discussion, despite his relative obscurity. | |
| Jul 8, 2020 at 7:42 | comment | added | Mark Morgan Lloyd | @davidbak One of the Robots stories had the fundamental programming done by some form of keypunch, over which a visiting schoolboy ran his fingers with unfortunate effects. | |
| Jul 7, 2020 at 9:53 | comment | added | AncientSwordRage♦ | @RossPresser I've argued for something similar in the past, using something from code golf to accumulate the answers, but it relies on everyone conforming to an opening title. | |
| Jul 6, 2020 at 19:26 | comment | added | Ross Presser | I wish that for this question, answers could be sorted by the date of the work, rather than the upvotes. It seems clear to me that Jurassic Park is getting extra upvotes just because it's got more upvotes already, and that people happening on this question are not even reading the other answers, three or four of which are just as good or better than Jurassic Park, and obviously earlier. | |
| Jul 5, 2020 at 20:14 | answer | added | McTroopers | timeline score: 8 | |
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| Jul 4, 2020 at 16:44 | comment | added | user21820 | Not an answer, because it was written in 2009 and is about realistic programming languages, but a really very interesting short fiction story is Coding Machines by Lawrence Kesteloot. I think every programmer who knows their stuff will find it incredible. | |
| Jul 4, 2020 at 12:49 | answer | added | Mark Morgan Lloyd | timeline score: 30 | |
| Jul 4, 2020 at 9:24 | answer | added | Graham | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 4, 2020 at 0:36 | answer | added | odd135 | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jul 3, 2020 at 14:38 | answer | added | Nyos | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 3, 2020 at 1:13 | comment | added | Mark | @LAK, I haven't read the later books, but the first was straight puns/parodies of existing computer terminology. | |
| Jul 3, 2020 at 0:37 | answer | added | Seth Robertson | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 22:09 | comment | added | OrangeDog | ~ATH was first seen some time in 2011. | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 21:45 | comment | added | davidbak | Well I don't remember any code samples in Asimov's books or stories - so I'm going for the other fork of the question ... | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 21:22 | comment | added | AncientSwordRage♦ | @davidbak, it doesn't need a name unless we don't see a code example. Basically something to prove its fictional. | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 21:19 | comment | added | davidbak | I'm sure Asimov had at least one story where a computer was programmed via code and not speaking to it ... but was it a named language? | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 20:09 | answer | added | Kryten | timeline score: 38 | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 18:23 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jul 2, 2020 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/1278705003172069379 | ||
| Jul 2, 2020 at 14:17 | comment | added | Ross Presser | Babel-17 (1966) mentions ALGOL and FORTRAN, and also amusingly enough, later it mentions Ruby and Python in the same sentence! But it means two dancers with those names, not the computer languages :) | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 14:12 | comment | added | Demize Glittersword | In the Wizardry series I know in the second book he brings in a team of programmers to create a Magic Compiler. A programming language to make casting spells easier and somewhat automated. "The Wizardry Compiled" | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 14:11 | comment | added | Ross Presser | The Moon is a Harsh Mistress mentions LOGLAN (in a single sentence) but that was a real language. | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 13:59 | comment | added | LAK | I haven't read Richard Cook's "Wizardry" books since they came out (started 1989). Anyone with a copy they can check? The first one was in 1989 and I think I recall some programming in there, but it might have been real-life Lisp and/or Emacs Lisp rather than a fictional language. I don't remember. | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 12:43 | answer | added | Ross Presser | timeline score: 35 | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 12:15 | comment | added | AncientSwordRage♦ | @Alith possibly? Is it definitely a fictional programming language or could it be an encrypted code written in real world programming language? | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 12:09 | comment | added | Alith | The program sent in the message in "A for Andromeda"? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_for_Andromeda | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 10:46 | answer | added | Tonny | timeline score: 19 | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 10:45 | answer | added | TheLethalCarrot♦ | timeline score: 37 | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 10:23 | history | asked | AncientSwordRage♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |