This is considered as the beginning of general-purpose programming. ( Image credits : NASA and MIT_CSAIL )
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But job listing will still be asking for 70 years of FORTRAN experience.
Can you really be proficient in a language you didn’t invent?
Source? I’d like to read the story
Edit. https://www.edn.com/1st-fortran-program-runs-september-20-1954/
Titles like these make me chortle. Over 65 years ago this month means it could be 70, 80, 100 etc.
Makes it easier to repost!
Any names of these two people ? I’ll try reverse search
Any idea what that first program was?
I’m guessing “Hello world” followed shortly by “send nudes”.
That was a mistake even back then
