@[email protected] to [email protected] • 1 year agoOver 65 years ago this month, researchers ran the first FORTRAN programkerala.partyimagemessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1408arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1406arrow-down1imageOver 65 years ago this month, researchers ran the first FORTRAN programkerala.party@[email protected] to [email protected] • 1 year agomessage-square20fedilinkfile-text
This is considered as the beginning of general-purpose programming. ( Image credits : NASA and MIT_CSAIL )
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 year agoFortran was actually a pretty solid language, and I actually regularly use programs that still have pieces written in Fortran.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•1 year agoOut 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?
minus-square@guleblanclink1•1 year agoNo. Not even close. It’s more like a sequence of assignment and conditional statements.
Fortran was actually a pretty solid language, and I actually regularly use programs that still have pieces written in Fortran.
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?
No. Not even close. It’s more like a sequence of assignment and conditional statements.