Geek Fact for September 20th

By Judy Novotny / 09/20/2012 / 2 Comments / Geek Facts

In 1954 , the first program written in the FORTRAN programming language was executed.

FORTRAN, which is an acronym for “FORmula TRANslator,” was invented at IBM for technical and scientific applications by a team lead by John Backus.

Learn more at http://objectmix.com/cobol/205902-ot-happy-birthday-fortran.html.

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Judy Novotny

Judy is a computer veteran with 30 years of experience. She has owned everything from a TRS-80, Apple IIe and various Windows-based PCs. She is currently living in her Apple ecosystem at home consisting of an iPhone, iPad, iMac, MacBook, Apple TV, iPod nano and two Time Capsules. She is a fan of all things mobile since she got her first Palm Pilot in 1999. Check out her iPad app, Number Wizard, in the App Store. Follow her on Twitter @junovotech or at Junovo.com.

2 thoughts on “Geek Fact for September 20th”

Karine Aguilar on Facebook
09/20/2012 at 5:19 am
Oh yes I’m getting old .. I remember Fortran and Cobol well.. Plus “Punch Cards.
Mindblower
09/20/2012 at 7:07 pm
Age does rear it’s ugly head when one can remember “punch cards and the readers – plus those big IBM machines (hard to call ’em computers). But Fortran was a nice program to learn. Composed my very first program to determine if three numbers formed a triangle and the type. Lots of fun, Mindblower!

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In 1954 , the first program written in the FORTRAN programming language was executed.

About The Author

Judy Novotny

2 thoughts on “Geek Fact for September 20th”

In 1954 , the first program written in the FORTRAN programming language was executed.