This is considered as the beginning of general-purpose programming. ( Image credits : NASA and MIT_CSAIL )
Titles like these make me chortle. Over 65 years ago this month means it could be 70, 80, 100 etc.
Over 65 years ago this month, researchers ran the first FORTRAN program
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KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 7 months 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
can@sh.itjust.works 7 months 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?
randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Makes it easier to repost!
Zeth0s@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Source? I’d like to read the story
lobsticle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And the program finally completed today! 🎉
lhamil64@programming.dev 7 months ago
Any idea what that first program was?
jballs@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I’m guessing “Hello world” followed shortly by “send nudes”.
HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
FORTRAN IV was the first language I learned to program in. Punch cards!!!
xilliah@beehaw.org 7 months ago
That must’ve been a punch of fun
quams69@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The tile flooring in the image is asbestos, fun fact
rozlav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Any names of these two people ? I’ll try reverse search
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?
misterundercoat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
But job listing will still be asking for 70 years of FORTRAN experience.
dodslaser@feddit.nu 7 months ago
Can you really be proficient in a language you didn’t invent?
SquiffSquiff@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
🤔Guido van Rossum: “Do not send me email like this”