FORTRAN: translating scientific formulas into efficient programs

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The FORTRAN team built a language and compiler that let scientific programmers express formulas at a higher level while producing efficient machine code. The 1957 system helped make compiled scientific programming practical.

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J. W. Backus; H. Stern; I. Ziller; R. A. Hughes; R. Nutt; R. J. Beeber; S. Best; R. Goldberg; L. M. Haibt; H. L. Herrick; R. A. Nelson; D. Sayre; P. B. Sheridan

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