This is considered as the beginning of general-purpose programming. ( Image credits : NASA and MIT_CSAIL )
Source? I’d like to read the story
Edit. https://www.edn.com/1st-fortran-program-runs-september-20-1954/
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?
But job listing will still be asking for 70 years of FORTRAN experience.
Any names of these two people ? I’ll try reverse search
Titles like these make me chortle. Over 65 years ago this month means it could be 70, 80, 100 etc.
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
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/