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+ "title": "FORTRAN, MICROSOFT'S SECOND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE",
+ "date": "1977-08-01",
+ "years": [
+  "1977"
+ ],
+ "topics": [
+  "Software"
+ ],
+ "params": {
+  "when": "AUGUST 1977",
+  "image": "/media/history/images/timeline_0877_fortran.jpg",
+  "oc_id": 26,
+  "source": {
+   "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20221215134357/http://www.old-computers.com/history/detail.asp?n=26",
+   "date": "2022-12-15"
+  }
+ }
+}
+
+<img src="/media/history/images/timeline_0877_fortran.jpg"/> <br/><br/> <p>FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation) was first used in 1957. It was a popular programming language designed specifically to solve scientific, mathematical and engineering problems. Its development started in 1954 with <b>John Backus</b> and some IBM designers. It was first featured with IBM 704 computers. <br/><br/> For several years, FORTRAN was the only high level language available and the only alternative to machine-level or assembly language programming. <br/><br/> FORTRAN was the first programming language Bill Gates used in his high school years. His school wanted him to write a class scheduling program on a Digital computer. Bill wrote it in FORTRAN, and designed a special version to put him in classes with no other boys and all the girls he thought were cute! <br/><br/> After BASIC interpreter, FORTRAN was the second software sold by the new Microsoft Company. It was partly written by Bill Gates and ran under the CP/M operating system. The high quality of the software and its documentation placed Microsoft among the first serious suppliers in an emergent professional software industry. <br/><br/></p><img src="/media/history/images/timeline_0877_johnbackus.jpg"/>