Comment on Over 65 years ago this month, researchers ran the first FORTRAN program
thefluffiest@feddit.nl 7 months ago
That was a mistake even back then
Comment on Over 65 years ago this month, researchers ran the first FORTRAN program
thefluffiest@feddit.nl 7 months ago
That was a mistake even back then
festus@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Fortran was actually a pretty solid language, and I actually regularly use programs that still have pieces written in Fortran.
profoundlynerdy@programming.dev 7 months ago
Out of curiosity, is a FORTRAN compiler at all self-bootsrapping in a manner akin to Forth? That is, you define a few primitives and then define the rest of the language in terms of those primitives?
waspentalive@beehaw.org 7 months ago
You don’t really change the compiler itself. You can build up libraries of your own subroutines and link in the ones you need in any particular program, just like you might in C.
guleblanc@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No. Not even close. It’s more like a sequence of assignment and conditional statements.