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Are you sure it was Fortran and not Cobol? Normally Fortran was used for academic/math (ForTran stands for Formula Translation, Cobol in busines (Cobol stands f

by Ecio78 12y ago

Are you sure it was Fortran and not Cobol? Normally Fortran was used for academic/math (ForTran stands for Formula Translation, Cobol in busines (Cobol stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language).

JackFr 12y ago
Fortran found its way into finance because it was the programming language taught to engineers in school. (These were real engineers -- software engineers hadn't been invented yet.) If you hired them to build computer systems you got systems in Fortran unless you specified otherwise.