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FORTRAN & COBOL (jan 1, 1940 – jan 1, 1954)

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Grace Hopper creates one of the first computer programming languages. At a similar time, FORTRAN is developed by a group of programmers at IBM.

- COBOL was the first language discussed and formalized for business
- FORTRAN was more concise and mathematical, whereas COBOL was more like English and wordy
- High-level programming languages, used to this day

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Date:

jan 1, 1940
jan 1, 1954
~ 14 years