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As the world was passing through tumultuous times in the 1940s, developers were taking their first steps. This is the story of the developer species, often recluse and hard to understand. We aim to explore how developers evolved over time and how they made debugging their most powerful weapons for survival through the ages.
The Dark Ages
The story of our intrepid developer begins in the early days when computers were still sprouting in the world, taking the form of large mechanical machines incomprehensible by the common man. Depending on the definition of computers, this story can stretch far back as to the early ages of humanity. (However, for the purpose of this article, we will consider ENIAC, created at the University of Pennsylvania and introduced in 1946, as the first digital computer according to the scope of our definition.)