This date in 1954 marked the first run of a FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation) program. Originally developed by John W. Backus and an IBM team, it quickly became the dominant language for programming used for scientific calculations during the "punch card" era. Backus was working on the IBM 701 for computing missile trajectories when he started work on a system to make it easier to write programs. He wanted a programming language that was closer in appearance to human language, resembling a combination of English shorthand and algebra. FORTRAN (today as Fortran) remains the top language in scientific and industrial programming. The latest version being Fortran 2018.
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