This is considered as the beginning of general-purpose programming. ( Image credits : NASA and MIT_CSAIL )

  • profoundlynerdy@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Out of curiosity, is a FORTRAN compiler at all self-bootsrapping in a manner akin to Forth? That is, you define a few primitives and then define the rest of the language in terms of those primitives?

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      1 year ago

      You don’t really change the compiler itself. You can build up libraries of your own subroutines and link in the ones you need in any particular program, just like you might in C.