Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time. Three years in the making, it would be refined in work that continues to this day.
The spacecrafts' original control and analysis software was written in Fortran 5 (later ported to Fortran 77). Some of the software is still in Fortran, though other pieces have now been ported ...
The dominant languages of the mainframe computer era had similar origins: FORTRAN emerged from IBM, and COBOL was largely based on Grace Hopper's Flow-matic, created for Remington Rand's ...
John G. Kemeny (left) and Thomas E. Kurtz made a truly Basic contribution to computer science in 1964. Courtesy Dartmouth Library 1964: In the predawn hours of May Day, two professors at Dartmouth ...
Around 1970, they tried building a second version with Fortran, but this didn't quite cut it, and Ritchie proposed a new language based on a Thompson creation known as B. Most Popular Gear
Bill programmed the Fortran simulator that helped check the team's work. Along the way, the manufacturer, a company called AMI, would assess the prototype. "They would say, well, we think the ...
Then they gave it samples of four non-spoken communication systems: human DNA, Fortran, bacterial protein sequences and an artificial language. The program calculated the level of order present in ...
Jude, as she is known, has been messing with code since 1967, when she taught herself Fortran and assembly code for the 1440. Once a Unix programmer, she "speaks C++ without an accent."
For the moment, Fortran seems safe. Save. Save. WASHINGTON -- Marie Smith has plenty of friends, but few she can talk to in her native tongue. She is the last known speaker of Eyak, a language ...
It was the most radical computer dream of the hacker era. Ted Nelson's Xanadu project was supposed to be the universal, democratic hypertext library that would help human life evolve into an ...
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