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title: "FORTRAN Programming Language Released"
year: 1957
country: "United States"
canonical: "https://recap.at/1957/fortran-release"
slug: "fortran-release"
recapType: "global_event"
startDate: "1957-01-01"
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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.

## Summary

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

## Sources

- [Fortran programming language](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran) - Wikipedia

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Canonical: https://recap.at/1957/fortran-release