Word: fortran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student needs to do is type out a problem and watch the answer computed before him on a television console. Previously anyone who wanted to operate a computer had to know Fortran or some other machine language...
...having a machine for a buddy, of course, is that it does not make a very good conversationalist -but the scientists are busy fixing that. Until now computer experts could only communicate with their machines in one of 1,700 special languages, such as COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language), Fortran (Formula Translation), MAD (Michigan Algorithmic Decoder) and JOVIAL (Jules's Own Version of the International Algebraic Language). All of them are bewildering mixtures that only the initiated can decipher. Now some computers have reached the point where they can nearly understand-and reply in-plain English. The new Honeywell...
There are hundreds of students at Harvard, Wiley said, who have learned to program in Engineering Sciences 10 or 110, in the Student Employment Office seminar on FORTRAN programming, or elsewhere...