FORTRAN
- The programming language FORTRAN was was invented in 1957
- The invention of the programming language FORTRAN was important because its numeric calculations and scientific computings are still used today
- The predecessor of FORTRAN was Autocode which was another simple coding language similar to FORTRAN
- The inventor was John Backus and it was developed by IBM
- A fun fact about FORTRAN is that the word FORTRAN is short for formula translation