1h 3min, jan 1, 1954 y - 1954- First Commercial Silicon Transistor & First Programming Language. Texas Instruments announces availability of commercial transistors. IBM introduced the first programming language called FORTRAN. Derived from Formula Translating System, FORTRAN is a general-purpose, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.
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