> On Feb 27, 2016, at 2:49 PM, Bill Cunningham <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thanks much. Yes I know you were speaking of assembly. I was just considering
> history. I've always heard binary was first. What that might mean IDK. And
> there was no evidence presented for that.
It may just be a case of people not familiar with early documents,
extrapolating from the fact that early programming was in machine language and
many early machines were binary. In other words, overlooking the fact that the
use of octal or even decimal would be a pretty natural choice even right at the
beginning.
paul
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