@cmoneyspinner 2 November 2022 more from that month

Ten computer codes that transformed science ~ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00075-2 Article highlights: ~ It’s an increasingly common pattern. From astronomy to zoology, behind every great scientific finding of the modern age, there is a computer. ~ A powerful computer is useless without software capable of tackling research questions ... Language pioneer: the Fortran compiler (1957) The first modern computers weren’t user-friendly. ... That changed in the 1950s with the development of symbolic languages — in particular the ‘formula translation’ language Fortran, developed by John Backus and his team at IBM in San Jose, California. ... It still wasn’t easy ... * * * I took a course in FORTRAN at university back in the 70s. It was NOT easy! LOL. If you are interested in #computers, #coding or #programming languages, this article is a quick 3history lesson.