Fortran

Authors:
Jerrold L. Wagener;Anthony Ralston
Affiliations:
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Venue:
Encyclopedia of Computer Science
Year:
2003

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Abstract

Fortran was the first high-level language. A program by J.H. Laning and N. Zierler that translated mathematical equations into machine language seems to have had the first operational compiler, but Fortran was the first widely used programming language.