1957年，第一个Fortran编译器横空出世。 程序员终于能用类似数学公式的语句写程序，效率飙升数十倍。一个全新的“高级语言”时代，就此被点燃。 Fortran的成功，像推开了一扇大门。C、C++等高级语言纷纷崛起，背后的编译技术也飞速迭代。

Fortran is the oldest commercial programming language, designed at IBM in the 1950s. And even though, for years, programmers have been predicting its demise, 64 years later it's still kicking, with ...

“I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.” —Tony Hoare, winner of the 1980 Turing Award, in 1982. Take a tour through the research ...