On Mar 20, 2007, at 10:21 AM, Andy Davies wrote:
> To be truthful I have always thought that the contribution of
> Fortran was
> overstated, certainly as regards commercial computing (input/
> output? - Do
> you mean the teletype?; Permanent storage? - why would you need
> that - the
> program types out the anwer at the end!)
The fact that it was the first non-Assembler-level language was
pretty significant, IMO.
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