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Yes, Fortran was earlier -- in 1957. But ALGOL introduced structured programming with code blocks and programmer defined functions. These were later added to Fo
by jhbadger 5y ago
Yes, Fortran was earlier -- in 1957. But ALGOL introduced structured programming with code blocks and programmer defined functions. These were later added to Fortran, but Fortran was originally structured like 1980s BASIC -- with GOTOs to various line numbers.
- jleyank 5y agoAccording to google, Fortran II in 1958 introduced functions and subroutines. Structure, yeah, and non-numeric statement labels and more sensible if's.