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FORmula TRANslation
The first high level programming language, fortran invented by John Backus and IBM. John W. Backus was a programming pioneer in the field of hardware and software development in the 1950s through the 1980s and early 1990s. Backus won the 1993 National Academy of Engineering's Charles Stark Draper Prize, the highest national prize awarded in engineering, for the invention of Fortran.

John Backus most celebrated accomplishment is the supervision of the development of the Fortran language. Harlan Herrick executed the first successful fortran program.

FORTRAN : The Early Turning Point
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Notes On Fortran Programming
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