Welcome. This is the discussion space attached to the Computing Atlas, organized around the fields, pioneers, languages and systems of computer science, honest about priority disputes such as the general purpose electronic computer claim and the Simula versus Smalltalk origin of object oriented programming. A few house rules: keep a disagreement about evidence rather than about people, and cite what you can.
The atlas itself is still being built. Every room below carries an opening note from the curator to start it off, and you are welcome to open your own thread on anything those rooms cover, or to use this room for whatever does not fit a narrower one.