(thing) by rp Sun Nov 14 1999 at 9:02:44
Fortran was invented by John Backus and others at IBM. The first implementation came out in 1957.

Unlike other languages, Fortran came free with every IBM computer, and it remained compatible: Fortran I programs still run on today's Fortran implementations.

This explains its popularity up to this day.

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