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FORTRAN Programming Language Released

IBM's FORTRAN was the first widely-used high-level programming language, enabling scientific computing and establishing the foundation of modern software engineering.

When1957
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Fortran is a third-generation, compiled, imperative programming language designed for numeric computation and scientific computing.

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