Wouldn't you need a crane to make a crane?
This is kind of like the whole 'chicken or the egg' thing. I'm just bored and thinkin' about stuff. I'd love to hear your variations of this concept. And, if possible, answer them as well.
Wouldn't you need a _____ to make a ______?
2007-08-04 17:16:13 · 7 answers · asked by ciabatta 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
No it wasn't chicken or the egg at all, it is only about a half of a human life-time ago that compilers as a kind of software-making-software came about, before that you essentially wired the whole circuit to have a computer working on a task, or several defined group of tasks.
Even then computers were simplistic and performance starved, if a person can read binary computer machine language it is possible that this said person can be a total idiot but capable to disassemble a program to Assembly form.
2007-08-04 17:32:22 · answer #1 · answered by Andy T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tools are built upon other tools. For the sake of simplicity and to end discussion of this question you can build a relatively small crane without a crane. Use that crane to build a bigger crane, then use that crane to build an even bigger crane.
You do not need x to build x. Where x is something.
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2007-08-05 00:25:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No just a type writer Cranes are built on the ground Wouldnt you need an alphabet to make an alphabet letter
2007-08-05 00:35:21 · answer #3 · answered by John O 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can answer some.
for the software, the first piece of "Software" came from someone linking codes together to form a single program.
For the chicken, it would have to be the egg that came first, because through evolution, the embryo (located inside of the egg) goes through several generations of mutations, eventually having XXX---->Chicken. So the egg came first.
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2007-08-05 00:21:20 · answer #4 · answered by Tyler l 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Learn machine language or assembly language.
Learn about microprocessors.
Take a course in Logic Circuits.
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2007-08-05 00:21:50 · answer #5 · answered by winter_new_hampshire 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first software wasnt written on computers. Sometimes you flipped switches and such, or used cards that had holes in them.
2007-08-05 00:20:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
wasn't it called DOS
and comand lines like
10 gotto=run
20 gotto=number between 1to 100
and so on.
2007-08-05 00:21:47 · answer #7 · answered by mystifying_psychic 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋