256th day of the year - Programmer's Day 2022 year- and statistic

Programmers celebrate their professional holiday on the 256th day of every year. In a leap year it is September 12, in a normal year it is September 13.

256 - number 2 to the power of 8 (28):

         8 - the number of bits in one byte,

         2 is the base of the binary number system (the one where all numbers are written using the characters 0 and 1, and which is used in modern computers).

The first programmer is considered to be Ada Lovelace - the daughter of the famous poet Byron and the author of programs for a machine capable of performing the simplest arithmetic operations, created by Charles Babbage in 1833.

Programming is already 188 years old!

And here are some more fun and interesting facts:

99% of programmers are men.
95% of programmers are under 45 years old.
There are about 8500 programming languages.
Each programmer is more or less fluent in about 10 programming languages.
Programmers start counting not from one, but from zero.
For a programmer, the phrase "A parent killed his children" is no big deal. Many programs have a hierarchical structure - the parent process controls the child ones launched at a lower level. When the parent process no longer needs the child, it "kills" it.
The most expensive mistake in the program cost $ 135 million: because of the missing hyphen in the equation after the start, the first spacecraft to study Venus crashed.
Happy holiday programmers! Today you really rule the world!