History of Computer Programming Languages

FORTRAN
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<Tab/>Known today as being one of the oldest computer programming languages, FORTRAN, which stands for FORmula TRANslation, was developed and published in 1957 by John Backus and his team of professional computer programmers at International Business Machine Corporation. As more and more technological advances were made, the FORTRAN language underwent many changes that allowed programs to be transferred between computers. Later versions of the programming language were FORTAN II, FORTRAN IV, FORTRAN '66, FORTRAN '77, FORTRAN '90, and High Performanc…