Over 65 years ago this month, researchers ran the first FORTRAN program

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• misterundercoat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But job listing will still be asking for 70 years of FORTRAN experience.

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  • dodslaser@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Can you really be proficient in a language you didn’t invent?

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    • SquiffSquiff@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      🤔Guido van Rossum: “Do not send me email like this”

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• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Titles like these make me chortle. Over 65 years ago this month means it could be 70, 80, 100 etc.

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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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  • randomaccount43543@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Makes it easier to repost!

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• Zeth0s@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Source? I’d like to read the story

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• lobsticle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And the program finally completed today! 🎉

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• lhamil64@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Any idea what that first program was?

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  • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m guessing “Hello world” followed shortly by “send nudes”.

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• HamsterRage@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  FORTRAN IV was the first language I learned to program in. Punch cards!!!

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  • xilliah@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That must’ve been a punch of fun

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• quams69@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The tile flooring in the image is asbestos, fun fact

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• rozlav@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Any names of these two people ? I’ll try reverse search

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• thefluffiest@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That was a mistake even back then

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  • festus@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fortran was actually a pretty solid language, and I actually regularly use programs that still have pieces written in Fortran.

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    • profoundlynerdy@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?

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