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

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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?