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Fortran, the First Compiler
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Fortran, created at IBM in the early 1950s, was the first high-level language to use a compiler — software converting source code from one language to another — among computing's biggest advances.
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Science ran on it for decades; readable source became runnable machine work.
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The compiler, not the syntax, was the revolution.