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.
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Oh yes I’m getting old .. I remember Fortran and Cobol well.. Plus “Punch Cards.
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!