Part 1: Historical perspective
The
ambivalent relationship between physicists and computer scientists:
- Physicists caused the construction of large computers, invented the Web, thereby pushing technology.
- Physicists clang to inadequate tools for too
long, thereby hindering
progress.
Fortran: no data structures, rigid format, no
recursion
Computers: geared to Fortran
Teaching programming at ETHZ in 1968: Fortran, assembler, (Algol)