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A historical journey through software development evolution, from 1960s punch cards and mainframe batch processing to 1970s home computers with assembly programming and BASIC. Explores how developers worked with limited tools, manual version control, and physical media distribution. Covers the rise of C programming language in the 1980s and sets up for a continuation discussing modern developments from object-oriented programming to AI-powered development environments.

The history and future of software development (part 1)