This is considered as the beginning of general-purpose programming. ( Image credits : NASA and MIT_CSAIL )
KairuByte ( @KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 22•9 months agoTitles like these make me chortle. Over 65 years ago this month means it could be 70, 80, 100 etc.
HamsterRage ( @HamsterRage@lemmy.ca ) 7•9 months agoFORTRAN IV was the first language I learned to program in. Punch cards!!!
Elise ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) 4•9 months agoThat must’ve been a punch of fun
lhamil64 ( @lhamil64@programming.dev ) 5•9 months agoAny idea what that first program was?
SubArcticTundra ( @SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ) 3•9 months agoAnd you’re saying it Fort_ran_?
thefluffiest ( @thefluffiest@feddit.nl ) 2•9 months agoThat was a mistake even back then
festus ( @festus@lemmy.ca ) English6•9 months agoFortran was actually a pretty solid language, and I actually regularly use programs that still have pieces written in Fortran.
profoundlynerdy ( @profoundlynerdy@programming.dev ) 4•9 months 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?
WasPentalive ( @waspentalive@beehaw.org ) 3•9 months agoYou don’t really change the compiler itself. You can build up libraries of your own subroutines and link in the ones you need in any particular program, just like you might in C.
rozlav ( @rozlav@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•9 months agoAny names of these two people ? I’ll try reverse search