Abstracting Away the Machine: The History of the FORTRAN Programming Language FORmula TRANslation Lorenzo Mark Jones
Abstracting Away the Machine: The History of the FORTRAN Programming Language FORmula TRANslation Lorenzo Mark Jones At the dawn of the computer age, an elite development team at IBM built the most…
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Abstracting Away the Machine: The History of the FORTRAN Programming Language FORmula TRANslation Lorenzo Mark Jones
At the dawn of the computer age, an elite development team at IBM built the most influential computer programming language in history: FORTRAN. But all of these high-level languages (HLLs)--computer languages that automate, hide, or otherwise abstract away the underlying operations of the machine--owe a huge debt of gratitude to FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation), the first HLL to achieve widespread adoption.Many programming practices that we take for granted now came about as a result of FORTRAN. Created Abstracting Away the Machine tells the epic story of how they did it--and what happened next.Over the past six decades, programming languages like ALGOL, BASIC, C/C++, COBOL, Java, LISP, LOGO, Pascal, PL/I, Python, Visual Basic, and many others opened up the field of computer science, and of computer programming in general, to the masses.