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United Kingdom spending the most money on digital computers due to military
necessity.
Germany had very early and rather sophisticated computers created by Konrad
Zuse but did not think that they benefited the war effort, so little or no funding
came from the German government, which is fortunate for the Allies.
Table 3.2 shows the approximate numbers of software applications developed
in the United States from 1940 through 1949. Military and defense software dom-
inated during this decade due to World War II and the Cold War.
Table 3.2 U.S. Software Applications from 1940 to 1949
During this decade, assembly language and macro-assembly language were the
norm. High-level languages would not appear until the next decade.
Building Software in 1945
Function points had not been invented, so all data were measured by using lines
of code. Although this example shows software of 1,000 function points, in the
1940s, most applications were all below 100 function points. This is just a hy-
pothetical prediction. Backfiring or mathematical conversion from lines of code
(LOC) to function points show these results for a project of 1,000 function points
in this decade: