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-squareDroggelbecher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·1 year agoThe 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
minus-squarecan@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-21 year agoNot if it happened in September A draft specification for The IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System was completed by November 1954. The first manual for FORTRAN appeared in October 1956 with the first FORTRAN compiler delivered in April 1957. None of those milestones though… Never mind someone found it: https://www.edn.com/1st-fortran-program-runs-september-20-1954/
minus-squareDroggelbecher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoYes, I saw that elsewhere in the thread before I commented
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
Not if it happened in September
None of those milestones though…
Never mind someone found it: https://www.edn.com/1st-fortran-program-runs-september-20-1954/
Yes, I saw that elsewhere in the thread before I commented