The Hello World Collection
The Genesis — Fortran
FORTRAN 77 · IBM lineage
The genesis of high-level programming. John Backus's team at IBM released the first FORTRAN compiler for the 704 mainframe in April 1957, proving that a machine could translate human formulas into efficient instructions — a claim the assembly priesthood had spent a decade insisting was impossible. The six-column indentation preserved here is a fossil of the punched card: columns 1–5 reserved for statement labels, column 6 for continuation, code beginning at column 7.
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