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

  • festus@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Fortran was actually a pretty solid language, and I actually regularly use programs that still have pieces written in Fortran.

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      1 year ago

      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?