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September 20: FORTRAN Code First Run

September 19, 2012 · 0 comments

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Fortran

Fortran

1954 – Fortran is a blend from the IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System that started as the assembly language for the IBM 704. A general-purpose, procedural programming language that is suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.

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  • Purple Codes broken
  • First FORTRAN code run
  • Red Hat 2.0 released
  • Large Hadron Collider to shut down

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