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jan 1, 1954 - first programming

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In 1957, the first of the major languages appeared in the form of FORTRAN. Its name stands for FORmula TRANslating system. The language was designed at IBM for scientific computing. The components were very simple, and provided the programmer with low-level access to the computers innards.

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jan 1, 1954
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~ 72 years ago

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