High-Level Language

The History of FORTRAN Programming Language

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The History of FORTRAN Programming Language

Programming Language – History FORTRAN Past Events Fortran is an abbreviation of “Formula Translation”. It is the world’s first high-level programming language for computers, widely used in scientific and engineering computations. FORTRAN plays an important role in numerical, scientific, and engineering computations due to its unique features. (Versions prior to Fortran 90 are known as … Read more

Understanding the Von Neumann Architecture

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Understanding the Von Neumann Architecture

For those of us born in the 80s, our first encounter with computers likely occurred around 1995, when the buzzword was multimedia. I still remember watching a classmate successfully open a game by entering a few DOS commands, and I was utterly impressed. To me, what appeared on the screen was like a foreign language. … Read more