December 2006
Beginner
1500 pages
55h 41m
English
Hundreds of high-level languages have been developed, but only a few have achieved broad acceptance. Fortran (FORmula TRANslator) was developed by IBM Corporation in the mid-1950s to be used for scientific and engineering applications that require complex mathematical computations. Fortran is still widely used in engineering applications.
COBOL (COmmon Business Oriented Language) was developed in the late 1950s by computer manufacturers, the U.S. government and industrial computer users. COBOL is used for commercial applications that require precise and efficient manipulation of large amounts of data. Much business software is still programmed in COBOL.
During the 1960s, many large software-development efforts ...
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