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Fortran first appeared in 1957... It's probably older than most people here on HN.

• fuzztester 3y ago
  "The first significantly widespread high-level language was Fortran." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_programming_language https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_programming_langu...
• bee_rider 3y ago
  As the other comment pointed out, F90 is surprisingly good considering it is also probably older than most people on this site, haha.
• EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 3y ago
  It's just 34 more yeats until F'57 becomes ambigous ..
  • bee_rider 3y ago
    I think you’ve made a typo, > yeats It is yeets, two e’s no a.
• pmcjones 3y ago
  Lots of information here: https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/ https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/