According to the most recent issue of U.S. News and World report: 'In the '50s, computers spoke in numbers and letters that programmers had to enter by hand, making even simple calculations take hours. Worse, every computer model spoke a different language. Then IBM employee John Backus and colleagues developed a system that translated a more literal series of words into a language called FORTRAN, short for "formula translating." The system, which debuted in 1957, sped up the programming process many times over and opened up computer programming to a much wider audience.'
Golly. Is that the official definition of a computer language? Or maybe the definition of a compiler? Or maybe the editors are working on a way to defeat spam filters. Final thought: Wikipedia couldn't be much worse than the mainstream press. George -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
