Fortran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Fortran (previously FORTRAN ) is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. Originally developed by IB...
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John Backus headed the IBM team of researchers, at the Watson Scientific Laboratory, that invented Fortran. On the IBM team were the notable names of ...
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inventors.about.com/od/computersoftware/a/Fortran.htm
inventors.about.com/od/computersoftware/a/Fortran.htm
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Fortran was invented by a team of programmers working for IBM in the early nineteen-fifties. This group, led by John Backus, produced the first compiler, for an IBM 704 computer, in 1957. They used the name Fortran because one of their principal aims was ``formula translation".
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Who wrote Fortran? Who found fortran? Who created FORTRAN? What is fortran 21958? Fortran stands for what? Wen was fortran invented? When was FORTRAN invented? What are cobol and fortran? What does Fortran stand for?
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The first high level programming language - fortran - invented by John Backus and IBM. ... John Backus headed the IBM team of researchers, at the Watson Scientific Laboratory, that invented Fortran. On the IBM team were the notable names of scientists like;
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The passing away of John Backus — leader of the team that invented the Fortran programming language — has been making the rounds yesterday and today. ... The passing away of John Backus — leader of the team that invented the Fortran programming language — has been making the rounds yesterday and today.
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www.cantoni.org/2007/03/21/fortran
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After dropping out of the University of Virginia, the military, and medical school, John Backus finally graduated from Columbia with a Master's degree in mathematics in 1950. He then went to work at IBM, where he invented FORTRAN.
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www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/SS01/hc/pl/fortran.htm
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The guy that invented FORTRAN died this month, John Backus. For those of you without the wonderful sublime pleasure of knowing FORTRAN, it was the first high-level programming language ever invented. This means that it was the first one to sort of kind of look like English.
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haduken.com/2007/03/rip-fortran/
haduken.com/2007/03/rip-fortran/
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FORTRAN inventor dies; Message #1 Posted by Don Shepherd on 21 Mar 2007, 6:00 p.m. ... John Backus, retired IBM employee who invented FORTRAN, died this past Saturday. FORTRAN was the first language I used on the job (US Census Bureau, 1974). Here's to the memory of another pioneer.
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