Over 65 years ago this month, researchers ran the first FORTRAN program : programming

[–] misterundercoat@lemmy.world 71 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But job listing will still be asking for 70 years of FORTRAN experience.

[–] dodslaser@feddit.nu 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can you really be proficient in a language you didn't invent?

[–] SquiffSquiff@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 years ago

🤔Guido van Rossum: "Do not send me email like this"

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Titles like these make me chortle. Over 65 years ago this month means it could be 70, 80, 100 etc.

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The funniest part to me is how 'this month' is absolutely meaningless. It was over 65 years ago last month too, and the month before that

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Not if it happened in September

A draft specification for The IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System was completed by November 1954. The first manual for FORTRAN appeared in October 1956 with the first FORTRAN compiler delivered in April 1957.

None of those milestones though...

Never mind someone found it: https://www.edn.com/1st-fortran-program-runs-september-20-1954/

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Yes, I saw that elsewhere in the thread before I commented

[–] randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Makes it easier to repost!

[–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Source? I'd like to read the story

Edit. https://www.edn.com/1st-fortran-program-runs-september-20-1954/

[–] lobsticle@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

And the program finally completed today! 🎉

[–] lhamil64@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Any idea what that first program was?

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 years ago

I'm guessing "Hello world" followed shortly by "send nudes".

[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 months ago

Considering fortran was designed for numerical computation, it was probably a east to check mathematical identity like n*(n+1)/2 = 0 + 1 + 2 + ... + n

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

FORTRAN IV was the first language I learned to program in. Punch cards!!!

[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

That must've been a punch of fun

[–] quams69@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

The tile flooring in the image is asbestos, fun fact

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

And you're saying it Fort_ran_?

[–] rozlav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

Any names of these two people ? I'll try reverse search

[+] thefluffiest@feddit.nl -12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That was a mistake even back then

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fortran was actually a pretty solid language, and I actually regularly use programs that still have pieces written in Fortran.

[–] profoundlynerdy@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Out of curiosity, is a FORTRAN compiler at all self-bootsrapping in a manner akin to Forth? That is, you define a few primitives and then define the rest of the language in terms of those primitives?

[–] waspentalive@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

You don't really change the compiler itself. You can build up libraries of your own subroutines and link in the ones you need in any particular program, just like you might in C.

[–] guleblanc@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

No. Not even close. It's more like a sequence of assignment and conditional statements.

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