Development, round II

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_ix.netcom.com>
Date: Mon Jan 26 23:08:52 1998

>First ever? I believe was ForTran. Which was just that formula
>translation from math formulae, i.e. trajectories, over to ML.
>
>But I guess there were probably many local tranlators and interpreters
>for developed locally. It was just that ForTran was a Navy thing..

Hmmm, I was thinking it was COBOL that Admiral Hopper had helped to
develop. What can I say, it's been a few years since I've looked at the
Navy manuals that would tell.

                        Zane


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