History of Programming

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Many people ask me, what I am doing when I program. I really have some way to explain to them, and I try to show what almost anything had originated from which is kinda how I respond to a question like that. So I want to explain the basics to the history of programming. First off all programming depends on an operating system, and most programming languages were changed over time due to the change of OP's. Here is a part of an essay I wrote to explain it.

Essay P1
From the year the very first Unix operating system was released, to the latest iOS. The art of programming has always been a major part of past and modern technology. Nearly everything you see on the web, or even on a program, has been made by lines of code in a programming language.
Programming was already a concept of past technology since 1822, due to Charles Babbage’s difference engine, computers needed a form of instructions in order to complete a specific task (Of course this wasn’t technologically a computer). 1936, the first computer was invented by Konrad Zuse. This was as well the first freely programmable prototype. The downfall of this invention is that it did not have a proper operating system, and only had so many functions contained of adding and subtracting. All of this though was required to be programmed of ones and 0s.
Many people don’t believe but Unix WAS the very first, properly committed operating system. This operating system held more types of programming languages than any other operating system ever has (Not to mention a highly modified version of Babbage’s engine program that contained Basic). Some were as Shortcode, Autocode (which happened to be that first compiled programming language), FLOW-MATIC and prototype versions of C called BCPL & CPL. The Fourth Edition Unix operating system started to run programs through the new C programming language. This was a change to the operating system history (This changed how to make computer programs and affected the way we had made the iOS and Android operating systems).

Hiya Molina welcome to the club do you believe that someday sooner rather than later a program will exist that lets anybody with no computer knowledge write a useful program via artificial intelligence?

Yes sure. It might even be possible now. There are already website builders on the web that takes no knowledge of actual programming. Also sooner or later someone will have to come up with that program your talking about. Technology advances everyday!

Undoubtedly but not for a long time and not in the way you think. At the moment non-programmers get programs written by discussing their requirements with an analyst programmer. I am one such person. Ultimately analyst programmers will be replaced with an artificial intelligence that will ask you all the pertinent questions and write the software for you. This won't be any time soon though as the AI would need to know not only how to program but also understand human language (e.g. English) and also comprehend what you are getting at and translate that into business / scientific / engineering / gaming algorithms etc.
IMO it is simply a question of technology... and time getting there. Though, I suppose that by the time an AI is capable of writing such software it will also likely be in a position to take over the world, terminator style!

a waveform discriminator would be the bee's knees with such a program I could take a monophonic sound recording, tease out each individual instrument and its ambient reverberation, and turn it back into stereo. they are close to that stage, with celemony software's direct note technology. but it just isolates individual notes in a relatively thin sound mix. but if such tech has to coexist with terminators then I think I will pass.

Well at least they'd be able to whistle you a tune while they killed you!

hopefully in that future, there wouldn't be anymore wetware anyways, so a killing would be no more dramatic than just a deletion of code.