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Alan Francis on Nostr: RE: The first programming I ever got paid for was a FORTRAN job. ...

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/117445853827353147

The first programming I ever got paid for was a FORTRAN job.
Today is FORTRAN’s 70th birthday; its reference manual “appeared in a glossy cover, handsomely printed, with the date October 15, 1956.” https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/FORTRAN/paper/p25-backus.pdf

(The actual software wasn’t released till the following year)

No longer fashionable but still, one of computer programming’s biggest success stories. I tip my hat.