redw0rm@kerala.party to Programming@programming.dev · 1 year agoOver 65 years ago this month, researchers ran the first FORTRAN programkerala.partyimagemessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1416arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1413arrow-down1imageOver 65 years ago this month, researchers ran the first FORTRAN programkerala.partyredw0rm@kerala.party to Programming@programming.dev · 1 year agomessage-square17fedilinkfile-text
This is considered as the beginning of general-purpose programming. ( Image credits : NASA and MIT_CSAIL )
minus-squarethefluffiest@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down14·1 year agoThat was a mistake even back then
minus-squarefestus@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoFortran was actually a pretty solid language, and I actually regularly use programs that still have pieces written in Fortran.
minus-squareprofoundlynerdy@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoOut 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?
minus-squareguleblanc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoNo. Not even close. It’s more like a sequence of assignment and conditional statements.
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.
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?
No. Not even close. It’s more like a sequence of assignment and conditional statements.