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| | The Self-Programming Machine |
 | | Basically, programming is a simple, logical procedure, but as the problems to be solved grow, the labor of programming also increases, and the aid of the computer is enlisted to devise its own programs. |
 | | With few exceptions, the programming languages covered in the two ACM History of Programming Languages conferences in 1978 and 1993 were conceived before 1975. |
 | | The first high-level programming languages, perhaps most famously FORTRAN in 1957, followed over the next three years by LISP, COBOL, and Algol, took a quite different approach to programming by differentiating between the language in which humans think about problems and the language by which the machine is addressed. |
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