This is considered as the beginning of general-purpose programming. ( Image credits : NASA and MIT_CSAIL )

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    9 months ago

    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/