Timeline for answer to First fictional programming language in sci-fi or fantasy? by TheLethalCarrot
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| Jul 27, 2020 at 14:12 | comment | added | chepner | Regarding my previous comment: no code in Congo, but the character Munro makes a passing reference (in the e-book I read, don't know how it appears in print) to "BASIC and TW/GESHUND" as two major "interactive languages" he had learned. It's not clear to me if "TW/GESHUND" is fictional or just a language I've never heard of. | |
| Jul 5, 2020 at 5:45 | comment | added | Dewi Morgan | It's a Unix system! I know this! | |
| Jul 3, 2020 at 16:03 | comment | added | chepner | Congo (1980) featured a programmer as well, though I don't recall if any source code appeared in the book (or if any did, if it was simple example of a real assembly language). | |
| Jul 3, 2020 at 0:46 | comment | added | livresque | What was the code in Sphere? That's 1987. | |
| Jul 3, 2020 at 0:42 | comment | added | AncientSwordRage♦ | @martheen all programmers should know how to baffle their managers, Crichton is just exercising that ability... /s | |
| Jul 3, 2020 at 0:31 | comment | added | Martheen | @BinaryWorrier Even weirder since the answer in the linked question mention Crichton was a programmer too. | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 20:53 | comment | added | NKCampbell | iirc in the text it says the the OS was a custom thing that Nedry wrote as well, wasn't it? That may not mean the language itself was custom but it's close | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 11:31 | comment | added | Binary Worrier | It looks like someone looked over an early "Programming for Unix" Unix book and threw random bits of it at the screen while inventing madly. | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 11:03 | comment | added | AncientSwordRage♦ | This feels like a good contender, and predates Soul Music by a good 4 year | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 10:45 | history | answered | TheLethalCarrot♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |