Episode 23 - FORTRAN, Compilers, and Early Programming
Advent of Computing
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The History of Fortran
In the early 1950s, there wasn't such a thing as a computer programmer. Most people who worked with computers were electrical engineers and mathematicians. The profession of programming became separate from that of designing and building computers. We're going to look at what it was like to program without a language in the 50s.
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