Archive for June 25th, 2007
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
IBM’s Fortran Turns Fifty
The programming language Fortran celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. In 1957 IBMer John Backus and his team released their Fortran compiler, IBM model 704. The goal of this development was to reduce the cost of programming scientific applications by providing an ‘automatic programming system’ to replace assembly language with a notation closer to […]