This is considered as the beginning of general-purpose programming. ( Image credits : NASA and MIT_CSAIL )
Titles like these make me chortle. Over 65 years ago this month means it could be 70, 80, 100 etc.
FORTRAN IV was the first language I learned to program in. Punch cards!!!
That must’ve been a punch of fun
Any idea what that first program was?
I’m guessing “Hello world” followed shortly by “send nudes”.
Considering fortran was designed for numerical computation, it was probably a east to check mathematical identity like n*(n+1)/2 = 0 + 1 + 2 + … + n
And you’re saying it Fort_ran_?
Any names of these two people ? I’ll try reverse search
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?
You 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.
