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FORTRAN was the first high-level programming language, coming from the words "formula translation".


History

FORTRAN was designed by John Backus for IBM in the late 1950s.


What It Can Do

FORTRAN was created so solve mathematical problems, and it is still popular today, particularly for scientific applications that require extensive mathematical computations. 



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