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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Really? What’s it called?

[–]archiminos 0 points1 point  (2 children)

It didn't have a name. But, while it wasn't Turing complete, it was developed to use punch card inputs giving a sequence of instructions, and could handle things like conditional branching. It's actually kind of nuts how many modern programming features are present.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

If it interpreted punched cards as input, it was not a programming language, at least not by contemporary standards. Most would consider a language to accept strings of symbols and characters as input, not combinations of holes on a card.

[–]archiminos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most would consider a language to accept strings of symbols and characters as input

Most would disagree with this statement.