Over 65 years ago this month, researchers ran the first FORTRAN program
Over 65 years ago this month, researchers ran the first FORTRAN program
This is considered as the beginning of general-purpose programming. ( Image credits : NASA and MIT_CSAIL )
But job listing will still be asking for 70 years of FORTRAN experience.
Can you really be proficient in a language you didn't invent?
Titles like these make me chortle. Over 65 years ago this month means it could be 70, 80, 100 etc.
The funniest part to me is how 'this month' is absolutely meaningless. It was over 65 years ago last month too, and the month before that
Not if it happened in September
A draft specification for The IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System was completed by November 1954. The first manual for FORTRAN appeared in October 1956 with the first FORTRAN compiler delivered in April 1957.
None of those milestones though...
Never mind someone found it: https://www.edn.com/1st-fortran-program-runs-september-20-1954/
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Makes it easier to repost!
Source? I'd like to read the story
Edit. https://www.edn.com/1st-fortran-program-runs-september-20-1954/
And the program finally completed today! 🎉
Any idea what that first program was?
I'm guessing "Hello world" followed shortly by "send nudes".
FORTRAN IV was the first language I learned to program in. Punch cards!!!
That must've been a punch of fun
The tile flooring in the image is asbestos, fun fact
And you're saying it Fort_ran_?
Any names of these two people ? I'll try reverse search
That was a mistake even back then
Fortran was actually a pretty solid language, and I actually regularly use programs that still have pieces written in Fortran.