Today in 1947, computer code “written in the modern paradigm” was successfully executed for the first time, according to the authors of ENIAC in Action.
This was the birth of computer programming as a profession, as the formation of the group tasked with this demonstration and subsequent coding work, “truly established computer programming as a job in its own right.”
According to the State of the Developer Nation report, there were 27.7 million active software developers worldwide in July 2023.