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>The nerds all learned to program Fortran, which was two years younger than COBOL A typo ? I thought FORTRAN was a bit older than COBOL :) Anyway, i very nic
by jmclnx 4y ago
>The nerds all learned to program Fortran, which was two years younger than COBOL
A typo ? I thought FORTRAN was a bit older than COBOL :)
Anyway, i very nice article.
- medler 4y agoGood catch! Fortran had, somewhat famously, the first optimizing compiler and the first commercially available compiler. My rule of thumb is that if I’ve heard of it it probably came after Fortran.