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Over 65 years ago this month, researchers ran the first FORTRAN program (kerala.party)
submitted 1 year ago by redw0rm@kerala.party to c/programming@programming.dev
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This is considered as the beginning of general-purpose programming. ( Image credits : NASA and MIT_CSAIL )

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[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Titles like these make me chortle. Over 65 years ago this month means it could be 70, 80, 100 etc.

[–] lhamil64@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any idea what that first program was?

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I'm guessing "Hello world" followed shortly by "send nudes".