This is considered as the beginning of general-purpose programming. ( Image credits : NASA and MIT_CSAIL )

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    41 year ago

    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?

    • @guleblanc
      link
      11 year ago

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