nov 10, 1954 - Fortan

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IBM's task force led by John Backus
first truly high-level programming language
(Yesterday's languages built today's software)
came out of making a compiler for the 704
(text book)
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didn't offer recursion for user but used it "all but in name" in the compiler
(Computerphile, "loops and recursion"?)

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