Tag: FORTRAN
If you are around 40 years old or younger you’ve probably neverĀ used a punch card to code. I, when started college in 1988 also didn’t have a chance to do it, by one semester (I know, 1988 and still using punch cards is kind of weird, but my College didn’t have a big budget!). Now you can experience it (and…
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BBC has published a 5-episode podcast to discuss the computer languages that had (or still have) great impact in the computer industry – Codes that Changed the World. Each one of the first four episodes cover the languages FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC, and Java, with a fifth episode discussing how so many different languages are able to coexist. As excepted we…