In the beginning (I assume.) there was machine code and only machine code. And I imagine this was not very good. Then I assume the next step was assembler, which probably only moderated the (then) tedium of coding. Then real high level languages were started to be developed, and this was very good. And then there were various new programming paradigms developed, and so on. What I am wondering is, is there a good book that covers in relatively good detail how we started at the most primitive level, machine code, and evolved to our current wonderful cornucopia of languages, operating systems, etc.? As the different threads reveal bits and pieces of the low level guts of Python, I am becoming more and more fascinated about how all of this is managed. Just the brief discussion of garbage collection details going on I find quite interesting.
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