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IBM Develops the FORTRAN Computer Language.
- Source :
- Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2023. 3p.
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslating system)—the first widely accepted, high-level computer language—was delivered by John Backus and colleagues at IBM in April, 1957. It was designed to support programming in a mathematical language natural to scientists and engineers and has achieved unsurpassed success in scientific computation.
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- Database :
- Research Starters
- Journal :
- Salem Press Encyclopedia
- Publication Type :
- Reference
- Accession number :
- 89315008