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Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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can@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Not if it happened in September

A draft specification for The IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System was completed by November 1954.: 71 The first manual for FORTRAN appeared in October 1956,: 72 with the first FORTRAN compiler delivered in April 1957.

None of those milestones though…

Is OP a repost bot or something?

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- Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yes, I saw that elsewhere in the thread before I commented
  
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