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ginko 5 days ago

I expected this to be about Plankalkül or something devised by Babbage.

IAmBroom 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, "oldest" needs an asterisk.

Edit: and just three paragraphs in, the author admits they didn't even bother using the oldest version of FORTRAN itself.

So, "oldest" means "rather early".

riskassessment 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I was expecting a system like Leibniz notation, Boolean Algebra, Begriffsschrift, or the notation system in Principia Mathematica