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Episode 23 - FORTRAN, Compilers, and Early Programming

Advent of Computing

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The Importance of Automatic Programming

Early computers weren't really equipped to deal with text data. They were built for math. Hopper's solution was to create a tool called a translator. Nowadays, we'd know this as a compiler but I like the old name of what it actually does.

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