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title: FORTRAN, MICROSOFT'S SECOND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
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date: '1977-08-01'
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- '1977'
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topics:
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- Software
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when: AUGUST 1977
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image: /media/history/images/timeline_0877_fortran.jpg
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oc_id: 26
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url: https://web.archive.org/web/20221215134357/http://www.old-computers.com/history/detail.asp?n=26
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date: '2022-12-15'
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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 **John Backus** and some IBM designers. It was first featured with IBM 704 computers.
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For several years, FORTRAN was the only high level language available and the only alternative to machine-level or assembly language programming.
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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!
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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.
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