This is considered as the beginning of general-purpose programming. ( Image credits : NASA and MIT_CSAIL )
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?
FORTRAN IV was the first language I learned to program in. Punch cards!!!
The tile flooring in the image is asbestos, fun fact
Source? I’d like to read the story
Edit. https://www.edn.com/1st-fortran-program-runs-september-20-1954/
But job listing will still be asking for 70 years of FORTRAN experience.