Historical Events tagged with "fortran"
Turns out history loves a label—battles, breakthroughs, and the occasional disaster, all neatly tagged for your browsing pleasure. Because sometimes you just need every weird invention in one place.
FORTRAN's Introduction to Programmers Worldwide
FORTRAN, the first high-level programming language, was unveiled to the coding community in October 1956. Developed by IBM, it allowed programmers to write instructions that could be understood by computers, significantly simplifying coding tasks. This new language was explicitly created for scientific and engineering applications, thereby addressing the growing need for efficient computation in those fields. The release marked a pivotal shift from machine-level languages to more user-friendly programming tools, opening doors for complex calculations.
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